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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

Elon Musk says he’s prepared to go to prison if U.S. government tries to censor X

Photo of X owner Elon Musk (Credit: Slaven Vlasic—Getty Images for The New York Times)

Elon Musk claims he would happily serve time behind bars if one of the arms of the U.S. government such as the FBI were to attempt to censor content on X, even though he called himself a law-abiding citizen whose corporate empire regularly follows countless rules and regulations.

“If I think a government agency is breaking the law in their demands on the platform, I would be prepared to go to prison personally,” he said on Sunday during a Spaces discussion with Alex Jones, the Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist whose X account Musk reinstated.

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