Hi Jean,
I'd rather argue the opposite. The only reason why Meta has admitted to censor information on Facebook under government pressure is because Musk opened the Twitter Files. Censorship was rampant under Twitter. I've observed a general demonization of Musk by civil society which I find mind-blowing. Everyone should be happy that the CIC has been exposed and that things have started to shift.
People definitely seem to have strong views about Musk, some for and some against, but I just want to address the specific point about X. From the transparency report X finally released it appears that content censoring based on takedown requests from countries with a less than stellar human rights record has increased significantly since Musk took over. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/elon-musk-criticizes-censorship-but-hi... (unfortunately the original Washington Post piece is behind a paywall).
At the current stage of affairs, all we can do is comply with the Charters we have.
Of course, but we are supposed to review the charter and operating procedures regularly, to see if they still are fit for purpose.
We should run an audit of existing tools (we kinda started that some months back) and see what can be done.
Absolutely!
Happy to sit down on this during ICANN81.
I am blur about what are our options for these type of ad-hoc work, mostly because of the room booking methodology.
I will look into getting an ad-hoc room reserved. Julf