Donald Trump Jr asked Elon Musk to create his own social media platform that can “explode Twitter” and save “freedom of expression in America” while he complained about his father’s permanent ban on the microblogging site after the siege. US Capitol.
Donald Trump’s eldest son criticized on Twitter what he called censorship “prejudice” and “unilateral targeting” and invited the SpaceX boss to create a rival social networking site that offered a platform for “neural referees”, apparently categorizing your father as such.
“I wanted to think of something to deal with the absurdity of the censorship that is going on now and obviously directed to one side,” said Trump. “Why doesn’t Elon Musk create a social media platform?
“This guy put manned people in space. He did it privately. He faced a great government and did it better, cheaper and faster than they ever could. This is the guy who does it, ”he said in the video clip shared on Instagram on Tuesday night.
Don Jr said he considered Musk the right person to face Twitter after the tech tycoon took on “West Coast high tech” for becoming the “de facto arbiter of free speech”. His comments came after Amazon, Apple and Google blacklisted the right-wing social media network Parler.
Twitter and Facebook also permanently banned the president who is leaving office on January 8, after his supporters marched on the U.S. Capitol – at his request – before breaking into police and riots inside the Capitol building. The attack left five people dead, including a police officer.
“Someone like him has the brilliance to invent something that blows up Twitter,” Trump said of 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 not become a “left-wing organization” that dismantles people with conservative thoughts.
“I’m not looking for a conservative echo chamber, I want a platform to argue my ideas against someone else’s and not just people in one place telling me what I want to hear,” said Trump.
He showed dismay and shock at Russian opposition leaders speaking in a recent debate about American technology giants and censorship, saying that “Russians are teaching the United States about freedom of expression today. That’s how it got scary ”.
– Elon, why don’t you do that. Go there and create a concept. I think you are literally the guy who must save freedom of expression in America, ”he said, concluding without evidence that the next Biden government would“ run over freedom of expression ”in the country to fulfill its political goals.