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Did you read the lawsuit? He isn't saying that Top Gear has no right to say negative things about Tesla. He is saying that when those negative things are lies and damage the business Top Gear should pay for damages.

But you're overall point is correct, Elon's definition of Free Speech is not universally agreed upon by everyone. However, it is impossible to draw a line between acceptable and unacceptable speech that everyone will agree with.



He does not care about damage in reputation:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593

Twitter's current cancellation policies are an abomination, but we'll see whether it gets worse with a private Musk company.


He won the lawsuit. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/business/elon-musk-defama...

According to the court no damages were done.

Are you suggesting he wouldn't have paid if the court awarded the pedo guy damages?


If I thought I could be sued for damages I would be less likely to talk about some subject than if the threat was I could lose my twitter account.




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