Elon Musk Has Good Reasons for Wanting To Reverse Twitter's Trump Ban
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If there is a headline, it should probably be: "Elon Musk Agrees With Twitter That Censoring the Hunter Biden Story Was Wrong."
If Musk was so fond for South Africa's segregationist policies, why did he refuse military conscription and jump ship to Canada as a teen?
Today's big powerful companies could become tomorrow's also-rans, no government intervention required.
"I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means," said Musk.
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The SpaceX/Tesla founder and billionaire has articulated lofty free speech ideals. Can he make them reality?
"I think it's very important for there to be an exclusive arena for free speech," says Musk.
$43 billion takeover bid reveals knowledge-class anxieties over free expression
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The libertarian vision of an 'uncontrolled' internet is not the dream of dictators.
Protections for open communication require more than the commitment of a single person.
A regulatory filing indicates that Musk is now the company's largest shareholder.
"Multi-billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson are off taking joyrides on their rocket ships to outer space. They are buying $500 million superyachts."
The Joy of Trash author talks about how D.A.R.E., bad TV, Weird Al Yankovic, and 9/11 created a generation of ironic idealists.
The artist's Rocket Factory project, which lets users build and own their own virtual spacecraft, is changing how we think about reality.
There are technical and logistical hurdles, but satellite internet could one day offer an uncensored alternative for people living in war zones and authoritarian countries around the world.
"Synthetic wombs make having kids much faster, easier, cheaper, and more accessible."
Time to stop pretending
Musk responded that he will pay more in taxes this year than any other American in history.
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Musk's finally ready to admit that government subsidies distort markets and that government actors are terrible at capital allocation.
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How much good can $6 billion really do?
"The quality of life we have even during COVID is so much higher than anything humanity experienced, and it's only going to get better."
The company successfully launched four amateur astronauts into orbit as part of its privately financed "Inspiration4" mission.
Powerful companies attempting to get government agencies to suppress competition means consumers could lose out.
Mocking penis-shaped rockets is no substitute for holding the feds accountable for a looming fiscal crisis.
Billionaires are going to space. They will help us get there too.
From SpaceX and Tesla to Uber and Lyft, many of the most successful companies thrived without the government's stamp of approval.
Here's how to find it and put an end to it all.
The tech billionaire isn't alone among the mega-wealthy in getting piles of money from government at all levels, say the authors of Welfare for the Rich.
Elon Musk, now the third-richest person in the world, was born in South Africa but eventually came to the United States via Canada.
The Trump administration has expanded a bipartisan drive to commercialize more of NASA's space operations.
Aerospace pioneer and SpaceShipOne designer Burt Rutan on the dawn of private space travel.
No, they’re not frontline ventilators. Yes, they’re useful.
The Lone Star State continues its attacks on Elon Musk's electric car company.
Neighborhood groups had sued to stop Musk's Boring Company from digging a tunnel underneath wealthy neighborhoods in West Los Angeles.
That seems like a bit of an overreaction.
The SEC wants to bar Musk from being an operator or director of any publicly held company for claiming he had a firm offer to take Tesla private at $420 a share.
Just because something looks like a gun doesn't mean it needs to be regulated like one.
Reason editors discuss DACA, Artificial Intelligence, federalism, and driverless cars.
We could be on the verge of an all-out war on artificial intelligence technologies.