It's not actually clear to me that free speech (in the constitutional sense) is Elon's driving factor here. His calculus seems to be: 1. People will find a way

It's not actually clear to me that free speech (in the constitutional sense) is Elon's driving factor here. His calculus seems to be: 1. People will find a way to say what they think online. 2. If everyone splinters into their own little self reinforcing bubbles and we can't hear each other, that is quite dangerous in the long term. That is to say, he arrives at a similar position, but it seems to be driven more by pragmatism than idealism.