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He is a futurist, and believes that without free speech, human kind is doomed.

I agree.



The important question is this -- why does he believe those things?

This is the same man that at one point tried to say that he was the founder of Tesla.

Saying things that I agree with doesn't mean that I should inherently be in favor of said person doing X, Y, or Z.


> why does he believe those things?

Just look at the conditions in any society without free speech and you'll find your answer.

More abstractly, free speech is required for free thought. Without free thought, we're all thought prisoners to whomever controls the information we received. Musk's contention with Twitter is that they have been positioning themselves as that entity.


Does free speech require a company to give me a megaphone to their private platform and users? Does twitter not have a right to exercise their speech?


Are you capable of talking without regurgitating propaganda buzzwords like megaphone?


I'm not aware of that term being propogandist. Maybe I heard it somewhere, definitely possible. Do you object to the image? It seems perfectly fitting which is why I used the word.


He has actively suppressed the speech of others.


One, Elon Musk is not a social media platform.

And two, how?




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