The problem with what Elon is doing at X is not that he is a so-called "free speech absolutist." The problem is that his behavior is impulsive, unprincipled, and narrowly self-serving while being colossally self-destructive. I mean, how's this for free speech? Here is a free market billionaire raging against people for not buying his defective product. Literally threatening them with reputational and material destruction if they fail to do so. And then he welcomes Alex Jones back in a safe space on his own version of X. So X is a safe space for tyrants, and there is no free speech here at all. What Elon has become is not a courageous defender of free speech, but a conspiracist and a provocateur, and a thoroughly Trumpian attention monster. He s at the center of a personality cult, and the experience is clearly harming him, and it has certainly broken his ethical compass. I m reasonably sure that if Elon polled his fans on X, asking whether he should kick the Jews off the platform, he would get an impressively positive signal. It might even be a majority that would even be in favor of such a decision. I'm not even sure how I would interpret such a result. But rather, it might not even be much of a decision at all, given what he s been up to these past few weeks, and what he has been doing with Alex Jones and the rest of the alt-right in the past few months. and the fact that he seems to think it might be a good idea, and that it s not even a good thing at all And I m not sure if it would be a bad thing, but it s better than not even if it s good at all . or not at least it s a good one at least in the long-term in the first place not bad at least it s a good thing right? well, maybe not even better than what he would do if he s just a little bit better than a lot but not much better than he s doing is better than the other thing he s supposed to be doing that he s right that s doing . and he s not doing in this case what he says does he s really doing or isn t