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Elon Musk shows his love of free speech

If it hurts his profits, it has to go

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Nick Cohen
Apr 08, 2023
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If you follow the tech news, you will know that Elon Musk has gone to war against Substack. He wants to punish it for launching a feature called Notes, which he fears may compete with his increasingly rickety Twitter platform.

Yesterday morning I found that no one could retweet Substack links to my pieces. By the evening, Musk had lifted the ban. But if…

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