[demygale]

It takes a huge leap of logic to come to the conclusion that Musk cares about free speech for anyone other than himself. What he wants is speech without consequences for himself. His ability to speak is mostly unrestricted by any government power, and policy changes at Twitter will have no effect on what few restrictions he might encounter.

[bko]

So why would he buy Twitter? No one thinks its going to be a good investment. It was kind of a prerequisite to have shareholders agree to the purchase. There's no conceivable reason for him to spend his time, effort and money in buying twitter apart from his stated purpose. He's going to lose money and time on it. And its a stretch to think his personal wealth or companies will benefit from Musk owning Twitter. So if no other plausible explanation as to why he wants to buy twitter, why not just take him at face value?

[I_DRINK_KOOLAID]

Musk got to #1 in the Forbes 400 by saying things to people on twitter and becoming a techno-utopian cult figure

This is like Kim Kardashian buying E! to make sure they can never cancel "Keeping up with the Kardashians".

Musk wants to keep rolling his promises into the future in order to avoid people asking them about practical and tangible results in the present, as they have been underwhelming to say the least when compared to the financial bubble he managed to inflate.

[drstewart]

>What he wants is speech without consequences for himself. His ability to speak is mostly unrestricted by any government power

... and you're the one lecturing about flawed logic?