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Before he bought Twitter, Musk remarked, "I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means."

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(Continuing the long proud tradition of someone asking for the opinions of a specific group, and someone not in that group replying anyways...)

...I think what happened is by 2022, Elon had fallen into such a bubble he genuinely convinced himself his alt-right ideas were super popular, and the only reason social media tended to lean left was because right-wing voices were being "surpressed". I think he honestly believed if he went free speech absolutist and removed all restrictions, right-wing voices would naturally dominate.

Of course, that didn't happen, because the right-wing is a minority that's shrinking every day. But instead of realizing he'd been wrong, he deluded himself into believing all the left-leaning folk had to be bots, because there's no way the far right's the minority, right? Right?!