paraphrasing @t0nyyates a bit twitter.com/t0nyyates/status/1 Elon Musk is the sort of principled libertarian whose motivating principal is maximizing the liberty of plutocrats and autocrats.

the choices he makes — mocking and suppressing speech asserting rights to defy people like him, amplifying fanbois of rightwing strongmen, acceding without resistance to takedown orders by autocrats — all make sense if you grant that Musk indeed has principles and follows them exactly where they lead.