Key Points
More than a year into owning the social-media platform now known as X, Musks aggressive tactics to defend myriad spectrums of speech are becoming clearer..
Meanwhile, some say those efforts actually protect speech he likes, and repress other views..
The way Musk frames his thoughts on free speech seems straight from the techno libertarianism that flourished in Silicon Valley around the time he arrived in Palo Alto in the 1990s and as he chased his dreams during the early days of the dot-com bubble..
Also this month, Musk focused on the companys policies around doxingseen as a form of harassing someone by posting personal information onlinesaying they included a prohibition on outing a users real name behind an anonymous account..
Doxing is not strictly speaking illegal, but it does impinge upon freedom of speech," Musk said during the audio event on X. Theres a lot of people if they say something, they may get fired or ostracized and so I think theres value to a nom de plume." ..
