Had I seen this comment first, I would never have replied above.

Musk got rid of the facility for detecting child sexual abuse material on Twitter, and now it has proliferated.

He has deleted accounts he doesn't like and even threatened to sue people researching Twitter: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/musk-threatens-to-sue-researchers-documenting-the-rise-in-hateful-tweets

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/08/tech/twitter-unbanned-users-returning/index.html

He prevented people leaving from posting links to their new accounts elsewhere: https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/18/23515221/twitter-bans-links-instagram-mastodon-competitors

Musk himself has responded to positively numerous accounts containing the most hateful bullshit.

"Of course biographer Isaacson makes the hard to deny insight that people are packages."

If I believed that, I certainly wouldn't tell people. Letting people know you are a sociopath makes them see you in a very different light.

That bio doesn't really appear to be good: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/13/elon-musk-by-walter-isaacson-review-arrested-development

I'm skeptical that any of these moral or ethical issues will reach you - but given that revenue at Twitter has collapsed since Musk took over, I don't see the practical capitalist reasoning there either.

I assume it's this weird fetishization of free speech, even hateful, lying, deliberately deceptive free speech, over all other societal goods, a disorder that has plagued America for decades now.

But still, it should be hard to lionize someone who spends $44 billion to buy a company and then systematically tanks their revenue.