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I am 100% sure that Musk would be fine with people criticizing him, Tesla or SpaceX or anything else that he has a hand in and would never shut anything like that down. Like that time when he started a personal vendetta against someone who suggested he didn't know what he was talking ... oh, wait.

> I think Musk might stop that.

Given how he responds to employees at his companies exercising their free speech rights, you may be disappointed.

I agree. People on HN love to theorize about reshaping current social media platforms, and now we may get to see someone actually attempt to do it. I hope people aren't so invested in Twitter they would rather this not happen.

I'm of the opposite opinion. I think being even more lax than Zuckerberg on psy-ops, hate speech, denialism, racism and misinformation will be quite dangerous to society. Some of the necessary conditions of speech itself might collapse, in a way that the very idea of 'speech' will become nearly impossible.

It will be terrible, for the Western democracies anyway - it will likely help Putin and Xi tremendously though.