Elon Musk and Twitter: Free Speech Is Not Free

Especially when it costs over $40 billion

Johnny P
CodeX
Published in
7 min readApr 14, 2022

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Source: Wikimedia Commons

Free speech is not free when a billionaire offers to pay over $40 billion for it in all cash. Despite the millions of tweets praising Elon Musk as a champion and defender of free speech, people must realize that no billionaire spends that amount of money, or any amount of money really, out of purely philanthropic…

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Johnny P
CodeX
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