Free Speech is whatever Trump handler Musk says it is. "Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated," Musk said in statement in April 2022, when the acquisition was announced. Musk said that he wanted to improve Twitter by introducing "new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans." But the X of today, Cuban said, isn't what Musk initially promised."It's only as free as Elon wants it to be.