All this bellyaching on whether Elon Musk is being hypocritical or falling short of defending freedom of speech, because buckling to demands from the EU, Turkey and/or India, is misplaced in my view.
The assumption is "we the USAers" are somehow not under the oppressive rule of an authoritarian self-entitled class, and our "freedom of speech" is therefore our leading export, to freedom-hungry peoples around the world.
Closer to the truth is authoritarians admire the sleight of hand tricks the USAers are likely to sucker for.
Twitter has barely been rescued from being a tool of The District, and could easily fall back to its old ways, whereas Facebook and YouTube are still seriously in the thrall of the dictator agencies (aka NATO or whatever we call it).
We're under the rule of authoritarians in the USA, with the ghost of democracy still haunting us. So what's all this about Elon succumbing to pressure in foreign countries? The battle has yet to be won here.
It's too early to assume we have any freedoms to export.
