Donald Trump Jr. has urged Elon Musk to set up his own social media platform that could ‘blow away Twitter’ and save ‘freedom of speech in America’, as he complains about his father’s permanent ban on the microblogging site after the siege of the American Capitol.
Donald Trump’s eldest son took to Twitter for what he called “bias” and “one-way” censorship, inviting the SpaceX chief to create a competitive social networking site that provides a platform for “neural arbitrators” , apparently to categorize his father as such.
“Wanted to come up with something to deal with nonsense about the censorship that is currently going on, and of course directed in one way,” said Mr. Trump said. ‘Why does Elon Musk not create a social media platform?
‘This man put manned people in space. He did it privately. He adopted a great government and did it better, cheaper, faster than they could ever do. This is the man who has to do it, “he said late Tuesday in the video clip shared on Instagram.
Don Jr. said he saw Musk as the right person to stand up against Twitter after the tech mogul adopted ‘West Coast high tech’ because he became the ‘de facto arbiter of free speech’. His comments come after Amazon, Apple and Google blacklisted the right-wing social media network Parler.
Twitter and Facebook also banned the outgoing president permanently on January 8 after his supporters marched to the American Capitol – at his request – before they raided the police and rioted inside the Capitol building. Five people were killed in the attack, including a police officer.
“Someone like him has the glamor to think of something that blows Twitter away,” he said. Trump said about Musk.
He suggested that the new platform could regulate against hate speech or violence, but at the same time provide a platform for neutral commentators and could not turn into a ‘left-wing organization’ that depletes people with conservative views.
“I’m not looking for a conservative echo chamber, I want a platform to argue my ideas to someone else and not just people in a place telling me what I want to hear,” he said. Trump said.
He expressed dismay and shock at Russia’s opposition leaders who spoke in a recent debate on US technology giants and censorship, saying that ‘Russians today are teaching America about free speech. That’s how scary it has become ”.
“Elon, why are you not doing this? Get out there and come up with a concept. “I think you are literally the man who is saving freedom of speech in America,” he said, concluding without evidence that the incoming Biden government would “trample on freedom of speech” in the country to achieve its political goal.