Elon Musk’s Free Speech Absolutism Is Flawed: Adrian Wooldridge

Hardly a day goes by without Elon Musk trumpeting his belief in the absolute importance of free speech. He insists that “moderation is a propaganda word for censorship,” that posts should only be taken down if they break the law, and that a thousand flowers should be allowed to bloom, however ugly. If the social media site that he owns, X, is going to be a public square for the world, he declares, it has to be a free-speech platform.

Though Musk’s posts on free speech have increased in frequency since he got into a fight with British Prime ...