Liberals shouldn’t abandon Elon Musk’s X, says leading US lawmaker – POLITICO

“I think everything he’s said publicly is that he believes in free and open speech and we need to have multiple platforms. Now I don’t think X should be the only platform,” Khanna told Anne McElvoy for POLITICO’s Power Play podcast. “I don’t just stay, I use it all the time … I don’t think the answer for progressives is to disconnect.”

“Now we have the distortion of the public sphere with moneyed interests and with digital spaces that are not equal for everyone to participate. And what we should be focusing on is how we create more town hall-like places for conversation online.”

On regulation, Khanna said he was not in favor of the US adopting Australian-style measures to ban social media for under-16s. He said the United States already has safeguards in place.

“We have a more robust tradition of free speech, and if someone is 15 and wants to speak out about Palestinian rights or LGTBQ rights or Black Lives Matter and wants to be online, I don’t think we should just limit that person’s speech. . I think there are other ways to get it.”