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- Elon Musk's X relies on free speech to work.
- But free speech is slowly tilting to paid speech on the platform.
- That could make countering disinformation on X increasingly difficult.
It would be a bad idea for a self-proclaimed "free-speech absolutist" like Elon Musk to charge a fee to people wanting to share their views online. After all, "free speech" isn't very free if you're asked to cough up a regular fee.