Yishan Wong, the former CEO of the US social news site Reddit, said at the weekend that Elon Musk would be "caught in a painful world" if he bought Twitter, believing that the Tesla, Inc. CEO did not fully understand the challenges of content censorship and enforcement of freedom of expression on the Internet.

"Elon won't solve some problems. I'm absolutely sure of that. He doesn't know what he's dealing with. " Huang Yishan said in a tweet that has become very popular.

Huang Yishan believes that because of the way the Internet works today, Musk is actually unable to maintain the ideal of freedom of speech of the "old Internet". He believes that because the modern web has grown to the point where anyone can post anything at any time, large platforms such as Twitter are eventually forced to be censored.

"on large social networking platforms, censorship is inevitable," he wrote. If your social network is large enough, you will be forced to censor. Not the government, not even the 'users', but the new dynamics of the social network itself. "

Huang Yishan said that politics is not the factor that determines these developments-although it is something that both parties tend to believe. Instead, he says, this is because people's ideas are inherently "powerful and dangerous" and large social media platforms have a responsibility to prevent people from getting completely out of control.

He continued: "it's not because some ideas are good or bad, right or wrong." It is purely to solve the operational problems caused by a large number of human differences on the digital platform. "

Huang Yishan believes that running a social media network is difficult, much more difficult than Musk may think at the moment.

To illustrate this point, Huang Yishan went on to say that the extreme lifestyle of Jack Dorsey, co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, is likely to be the result of trauma and long-term stress caused by the position.

"the worst part is that the most hurtful part is that it will distract him from his tasks at SpaceX and Tesla, Inc., because it will not only consume his time and attention, but also damage his spirit," he said. "

Musk seemed to dismiss the views expressed in Huang Yishan's series of tweets, responding that it was "a novella of one post" and that Twitter "should have" launched a long-length tweet function.