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Irina Raicu, director of the internet ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, opinions that Twitter would be a better place if Elon Musk asked his followers to reduce their harassment of other users.

"Now, Musk says that he would like “a much bigger percentage of the country to be on (Twitter), engaging in dialogue” and that he would like the platform to be “as broadly inclusive as possible.”

While he can’t yet change Twitter’s content-moderation policies, there is something he could do immediately to promote that goal. He could tell his followers not to react with personal and irrelevant attacks on people that they (or he) disagree with.

Irina Raicu, director of the internet ethics program, published in The Mercury News.