30 August 2024 Elon Musk, the Trump-supporting mega-rich ‘free speech absolutist’ (except when it’s his authoritarian friends who are asking), has been neatly taken down by the estimable Robert Reich. In this piece in The Guardian, he also lists 6 ways in which the ‘unaccountable political power’ produced by Musk’s enormous wealth can be checked, the first of which is by boycotting Teslas. Read, mark, learn and inwardly digest because urging Musk even to glance at an executive summary of J.S. Mill’s On Liberty would obviously be a waste of time.
PS See also this review of Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by New York Times reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, and especially George Monbiot’s ‘Can democracy survive now the world’s richest man has it in his sights?’ The Guardian, 2 November 2024
And this piece by Alexander Hurst.