Everyone loves free speech. Especially their own.
Elon Musk, the world’s richest human and a prolific Twitter user, proudly calls himself a zealot for “free speech,” which takes on special meaning now that he apparently has sealed a $44 billion deal to purchase Twitter and take the company private. His famously flamboyant fascination with the social network’s power is facing mounting questions about what he really has in mind — and how it will square with the social, political and legal realities of a world that already likes to think of Twitter as if it belonged to them — or should.
Issue one: “Free speech” is a virtue with about as many definitions as people who claim to believe in it.
