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It's not that the banning itself is wrong. It highlights the hypocrisy of Musk's claims about free speech.

Publishing someone's social security number is "free speech"?

When everything is supposed to be "free speech", then yes. That's exactly why total free speech is a red herring.

he can be as hypocritical as he wants; it's his platform

When someone is hypocritical, I'm inclined to question their motivations and lower my trust in anything they say on that topic.

Musk claims he bought Twitter to champion free speech. This is undermined by the fact that the site selectively censors posts or accounts for e.g. criticising Israeli policy or publishing publicly available flight data.

Which is your right to lower your trust! Just don't expect him or X to give you a platform to air said grievances. You don't have a right to speak truth to power on that power's platform or for anyone to care. I've been told ad nauseam that the first amendment only applies to government.

I feel like you keep missing the point. Which is: this undermines Elon Musk's claim to free speech advocacy.

And we can say what we want about that.

Few dispute that, though it's fair to point out the hypocrisy of its owner who loudly champions free speech on social media platforms when it suits him to do so.