Musk free speech censorship: Most interesting man in the world is out to save humanity
Elon Musk free speech censorship. These words will forever be linked in internet searches, thanks to the history we are watching unfold today.
Long before achieving his life goal of getting humanity to Mars, Elon Musk has already become not just the most interesting person on the planet but arguably the most important.
He’s almost single-handedly become the last firewall for free speech across the globe – and now his SpaceX company is being asked to save two American astronauts stranded on the International Space Station – and to perhaps save the U.S. space program.
All that, after he’d already set out to save our energy future with electric vehicles made by Tesla – now the second-largest producer of them in the world next to China.
As opposed to Dos Equis beer’s ultra-refined spokesman, Elon Musk is the real – and notably unrefined – Most Interesting Man in the World.
In just his battle to preserve and protect free speech on social media platform X, formerly Twitter, he has become the embodiment of the dystopian novel hero fighting to free humanity from tyranny. As such, he is a kind of high-tech Tiananmen Square ‘“Tank Man.”
But this is no futuristic fiction. This is the position he’s in today, and the predicament we find ourselves needing rescue from.
As he endeavors to lift us back into space on his own shoulders – and as the backward authoritarians in world government grab into his shoe tops in an effort to weigh him down and silence him and the rest of us – it’s essential to understand who he is and what makes him tick.
No one helps us do so better than esteemed historian and author Walter Isaacson, in his massive and massively important 2023 biography titled simply Elon Musk.
Though he purchased Twitter for $44 billion largely out of frustration with its management, and as a bit of a lark, he saw how the platform had been silencing dissent from political orthodoxy. Now, X is increasingly one of the last remaining free speech platforms in the world – particularly since other platforms have bent to the jackbooted whim of censor-happy governments.
And this past week, social media entrepreneur Pavel Durov, co-founder and CEO of the Telegram encrypted messaging app, was arrested by French authorities who claim concern over its use in “in global drug trafficking, pedophilia and fraud.”
Isaacson was granted lengthy and intimate access to Musk’s professional and personal lives – both of which can be chaotic but make for an enthralling ride: 615 pages never felt so short. And Isaacson smartly jumps among Musk’s myriad enterprises and interludes in short, unintimidating bursts.
If you had lived in Benjamin Franklin’s time and had somehow gained access to Isaacson’s mesmerizing biography of him – or likewise had contemporaneous access to his books on Einstein, Da Vinci, Einstein or Steve Jobs – you’d have been wise to gobble them up.
You have that opportunity with Elon Musk – a real-time second-person memoir of the Most Interesting and Perhaps Most Important Man in the World.
Elon Musk free speech censorship. These are now some of the most important words in the English language.
