As it was confirmed Monday that Elon Musk would purchase Twitter and take it private, the Tesla founder urged his “worst critics” to stay on Twitter.
“I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means,” he wrote in a Twitter post.
Musk has repeatedly called for the removal of some of Twitter’s content moderation rules that critics have said are tantamount to political censorship.
“Is someone you don’t like allowed to say something you don’t like? And if that is the case, then we have free speech,” Musk told a TED conference in an interview in April.
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