Billionaire says he wants to strike a balance between allowing free speech and avoiding a ‘hellscape’
Elon Musk is used to defying conventional wisdom.
Little over a decade ago, the billionaire’s critics were writing off his electric car venture, Tesla, as a failure, while his rocket company SpaceX was teetering on the brink after a string of disastrous launches.
Yet today, Tesla is valued at $700bn (£607bn) after upending the auto industry. SpaceX, meanwhile, has dazzled the world with countless displays of its pioneering reusable rockets.
Their continued success is the talisman brandished by Musk’s fans as proof that the mercurial entrepreneur is not bound by the same limitations as us mere mortals.