http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20220422-182236-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/elon-musk-wants-to-buy-twitter-to-create-a-free-speech-utopia-now-what/ Elon Musk Wants to Buy Twitter to Create a Free Speech Utopia: Now What? van de Kerkhof, Jacob eng 2022-04-22 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Elon Musk Free Speech Social Media Twitter Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The enigmatic Tesla founder Elon Musk has made a public offer to buy 100% of Twitter’s shares at approximately 138% of each share’s value. In his letter of intention submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk describes that free speech is necessary in a democratic society, and he wishes to unlock its full potential by bringing Twitter under (his) private ownership. Constitutionally this raises an interesting point: if indeed a billionaire wants to change the rules of speech on the ‘new public squares’ by acquiring a social media platform, can he – and should he be able to?