Elon Musk doesn’t grant many interviews, though he did give one to Ben Scallan of this parish in 2024 where he said that without the ability to speak your mind within the context of the law you don’t have a real democracy.
The Tesla and Space X founder is undoubtably committed to free speech – to the point where he bought a whole social media platform to tackle the undeniable restrictions on freedom of expression that were fast becoming the norm online at the behest of governments, supranational organisations such as the UN, and various aggressive lobby groups, such as those who demanded that people be banned because they said perfectly reasonable things such as that Covid-19 came from a Chinese lab, or that women don’t have a penis.
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