Academics, activists, journalists and entertainers from around the globe and across the ideological spectrum are joining together to challenge the “Censorship-Industrial Complex” in geopolitical contexts as different as the U.S., Brazil and Turkey.
They signed the Westminster Declaration , a full-throated attack on public-private efforts to define “protected speech as ‘misinformation, ‘disinformation,’ and other ill-defined terms,” label and bury it, undermining “centuries-old democratic norms” and “foundational principles of representative democracy.”
A narrower ideological range of signatories is going further with regard to Elon Musk. They asked the owner of X , formerly Twitter, to fund legal challenges to “state-driven censorship,” given that Musk promised to pay legal bills for X users whose employers “unfairly treated” them because of their posts.
“If X is to be a free marketplace of ideas, everyone must be able to peacefully debate the issues of our time without fear of government punishment,” they wrote, citing the court-ordered […]
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