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What does it mean that one co-founder lauds Substack as a “non-oligarchal media platform” as a tongue-in-cheek subtweet to Musk and Zuckerberg while the other co-founder praises those same “oligarchs” for their incoherent stances on free speech?

Elon Musk has been a vocal supporter of free speech. It’s no secret that we haven’t always seen eye to eye, but he deserves a lot of credit for advancing freedom of speech on X, before it was popular and in the face of fierce criticism and opposition. But Musk’s record is not perfect—he has been credibly accused of censoring his political opponents in addition to his commercial ones. —Chris Best, The fight for free speech in 2025 and beyond

Free speech is glorified as an objective ideology despite people being governed by subjective whims. This is its fundamental problem.

Objectivity is one of the greatest societal myths of western society.