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What-the-fuck. When did you get your understanding of free-speech from?
Haven't you heard the "I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It"? That is free speech.
Free speech is about unconstrained flow of information in a distributed system of human beings. Any other way hinders the truth-seeking capability of that system.
Exercising free speech is only applicable in the public domain. If i enter your house you have the right to kick me out if I say something you don't like. Right? Twitter is basically Musk's property. It's his right to set the rules. Whether it's a productive business practice is another question.
I am not interested in discussing semantics and technicalities (FYI Musk himself compared Twitter to roman forum as public infrastructure for communication).
I am pointing out that Musk is not interested in "defending to his death their right to say things he doesn't agree with" on his platform.
He's the owner of twitter. He can censor who he wants. That's his expression of free speech. A third party censoring his platform is a violation of property rights