If he genuinely cared about free speech, and like Roar87 claims, doesn't care about twitter being profitable, why did he go for a paid subscription model that prioritises the payees tweets?
Why do you think that isn't freedom of speech?
People seem to really struggle with this concept. Elon does want Twitter to make money - it isn't about "not caring", however that doesn't mean making money at any cost i.e. only having content that the advertisers approve of. Otherwise it would just be the same as every other platform, and he would run it in the same way the previous administration did. It honestly feels like a teacher having to tell a student the same thing 20 times and him just not getting it.
Musk talks a big game on free speech but his actions doesn’t match his words. He’s fired many workers for speaking their mind
Bring your company into disrepute isn't a free speech issue because there are appropriate channels to "speak your mind" without publicly slating your boss or company. I think if most of sat and Tweeted publicly negative things about our company we'd be fired. Did Elon Musk delete the Tweets? I'd suggest not. It doesn't mean there aren't consequences that a private company can instigate with it's employees. Next point.
he’s block links to newspapers and rivals
Twitter isn't forced to advertise it's competitors. You can mention competitors, you can criticise Twitter and say that users should go to another platform instead. Twitter isn't forced to link to that other platform though in the same way you can't advertise Youtube streams on Twitch. This is again fundamentally not really understanding free speech.
he’s banned users who posted publicly available information about his private jet
It isn't publicly available though, you need to source other information about the jet which he did. But also, you can't doxx people online, this is where free speech meets public safety; in the same way you can't shout "bomb" on an aeroplane and be covered by free speech laws in America, or tell someone to shoot someone else and be covered by free speech laws. These are well accepted limitations on free speech. They actually said they could track the location of the plane as long as they added in a delay, which was a reasonable compromise.
and he’s bowed down to pressure from authoritarian governments like China
Twitter doesn't operate in China
and India to ban users and content.
He literally has to operate Twitter under the laws of the country it's operating in, otherwise it
Musk only cares about free speech for himself and his fans.
No, you are allowed to criticise anyone on Twitter and make your political views known.
As soon as free speech inconveniences him in any way, he’s shuts it down.
Risks to personal safety or deliberately trying to financially damage someones company =/= inconvenience.
The only major platform that cares about free speech is actually Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a non-profit organisation that has riled up all kinds of governments and organisations by stating the truth.
It's not really the same thing, I like Wikipedia but it isn't a social network. Also I don't expect Wikipedia to post the kinds of things we saw Wikileaks post.
