What Musk’s $4b Twitter investment is really about (it’s not money)

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s decision suggests that he wants to bring the social media platform to heel – and that could be bad for free speech.

providing services to your fellow human beings, not money in any form,” he cautioned. That may be easy advice to give when your net worth is $US273 billion, your electric vehicle company is surging and you can shoot your own rockets into space.

Consider the poll he conducted 10 days ago. “Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy,” it says. “Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?” More than 2 million users responded to that question and 70.4 per cent of them voted “no”.

His Twitter rants and raves have been wide-ranging and unfettered. He once tweeted, then deleted, a meme comparing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Hitler. He’s tweeted transphobic memes. He’s slagged a British cave explorer as a “pedo guy”. That’s a lot of free speech, and Twitter hasn’t done a lot to curtail it.

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AFR Where in that was your point to justify that headline? Exactly! None! That’s a perfect example of Blackrock-inspired MSM Nuspeak. You get clicks and shares abd the whole of stoopidvilke fascist wannabe wokism left share the vacuous headline and earn dopaminergic virtue pts

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