Twitter’s now former head of Trust and Safety predicts what’s next for its “guardians of the internet.”

In this op-ed, Yoel Roth examines why he left Twitter last week (because all decisions now rest with one person, Elon Musk) and the hellish rules about content moderation Musk will have to navigate, whether they’re made by regulators or the scheduled moderation board. .

But, as Roth explains, Apple and Google are perhaps the most notable checks on Elon’s “unilateral edict” and free speech platitudes:

Twitter will have to weigh the new owner’s goals against the practical realities of life on the Apple and Google internet – no easy task for the employees who have chosen to stay. And when I left the company, the calls from the app review teams had already started