nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220422-182236-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220422s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220422-182236-0 doi eng 342 23 van de Kerkhof, Jacob Author aut Elon Musk Wants to Buy Twitter to Create a Free Speech Utopia: Now What? van de Kerkhof, Jacob Verfassungsblog 2022-04-22 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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? CC BY-SA 4.0 Elon Musk Free Speech Social Media Twitter Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/elon-musk-wants-to-buy-twitter-to-create-a-free-speech-utopia-now-what/ raw object