Due to the Chinese economic rise and some other factors many people in the world started to accept censorship and restriction of individual rights more easily, especially an elite that fears losing power in the future, seeing this happening Elon Musk seems to be trying to save the model of democracy where freedom of expression is the pillar.
How can a passenger on an airplane warn that there is fire on board if he is prohibited from expressing himself? Elon Musk once said that if we were in a matrix there would be chaos before civilization could continue to evolve, that's what Elon Musk is concerned about. Can you imagine that we are all falling into the abyss and no one can warn that we are going to the abyss? this is censorship.
When a people cannot express itself, any measure is valid. In Shanghai, China, many are currently starving inside their homes because the government decided it would lockdown without asking anyone's opinion. Everything has reached this point in China because the people are censored from expressing themselves, so they don't have a representative in power.
For these reasons Elon Musk knows that if he lets censorship run wild, soon the voice of only a group of people will be representing 'society', the rest would end up becoming slaves as happens in china, because as Elon musk said on twitter it's like a public square... What democracy is this where a part of the people are expelled from expressing, how can people decide which is the best choice?
Not to mention the innovation that can be affected, since information does not circulate freely... And even who knows, a group can decide in which areas other people can invest or not, as is currently the case in China.
In a way he could create his own social network instead of buying twitter, but there is the habit factor and the brand. Twitter is a name that most people already have in their heads and many already use it to share news, opinions, project updates...
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