Curtailed. that is the problem. there is a velocity issue. it is an algorithm issue. roger, you talk about this all the time. the people who put in free speech context are muddying the water here. twitter does not have a first amendment problem. no one has told twitter to do anything. although, in europe they are starting to come up with regulation that is causing social media companies to have to moderate some of their content. that is not what elon musk is doing. he hung his hat on something else here. i think you think it is the wrong thing. yes, ali, i think the fundamental problem here is that twitter is the place where politicians, and journalists, builds their brands and spread their messages. it has a disproportionate, and punches way above its weight. it is less than tenth the size of facebook or google. and yet, because that is where
Twitter. i think that really would solve the problem. i do not think there is any way, with all due respect, i do not think there is any way the technology or the human power to do moderation is going to work at the scale and velocity these products moderate and work at. we have to be honest, the business model is the problem. if you want to fix this, if you want safe democracy, you have to do something about surveillance capitalism and algorithm application. we have a minute left. let me ask you this, you have also suggested to tears. and an moderated tear, and moderated here. how did that work? well, i think that twitter tried the subscription model. it did not work very well. that is not something they have not tried in the past. the problem is, i agree with roger. we do have many instances of advertising run businesses that are moderated successfully. at the scale of these types of companies, i also agree with roger that at the level of the
You cannot have twitter that supports democracy without content moderation. it is impossible. so, roger, how do you square content moderation. how do you keep it away from censorship? how do you walk that line? how do you say, if you really want to hear the ideas of others, and you want platforms that give equal weight and space to ideas that otherwise don t get amplification, how do you do that without becoming a sensor? to be clear, i do not think that content moderation will work here. i do not think it works at the scale it does not on any of these social media platforms. the business model rewards the exact content you are trying to moderate. in that paradox, it cannot be resolved. i think the only way to do it is to force them to change the business model. our mutual friend, scott, and and why you, has proposed a subscription business model for
Historically. social media is certainly not helping to achieve that goal. what twitter needs is to consider how it can remain being a farm for open dialogue. to do so, without contributing to the erosion of democracy. after a quick break, i have to leading experts on social media and the dangerous opposes. roger macclenny, and some man morale join me next. ma morale join me next. i ve been everywhere.