Nowhere in this piece is the FBI mentioned...
And it's fine to make an argument against moderation in general. But that's not what this article is doing.
And it's fine to make an argument against moderation in general. But that's not what this article is doing.
Geopolitical hat on.
Elon Musk is getting close to the Saudis (Twitter), China (Gigafactory Shanghai), and Russians (necessary industrial inputs). In the past few months he's casually suggested a handover of Ukraine and Taiwan. Now he's turning on the Democrats and the FBI, or at least certain members of those organizations.
My mind wonders if the DoD will sour on his role at SpaceX. We've recently seen lawmakers impact the valuation of Tesla vis a vis tax incentives. Are Musk's foreign ties and obligations a risk to a defense company that services classified national interests?
Perhaps he or the company he keeps have enough friends within the DoD chain of command that there won't be any issues. Or maybe none of this matters. But I am half expecting to see sparks fly.
(I'm 100% reading between the lines here, and I don't have any evidence for any of my suspicions. Feel free to dismiss outright, though I would appreciate additional commentary if anyone has anything interesting to add.)
4 hours later he tried to backpedal, which is perhaps the only move more pathetic than having boosted the propaganda in the first place.
The much more reasonable explanation for Musk's behavior with respect to the Democrats and FBI is that he does not like the censorship going on with the gradual fusing of the US security sector and US Tech companies.