It's a take on his claims of being a free speech absolutist who would buy the platform to restore free speech to it.
The not stupid ones in the room have known all along that privately owned platform owner can set content rules for their platform however they like. But enough folks believed his claims that any time he pulls his stupid censorship out we like to make free speech jokes
The man-child Musk is the opposite of the Senex (wise old man archetype) -- the so-called "Puer Aeternus":
"The shadow of the puer is the senex (Latin for 'old man'), associated with the god Cronus—disciplined, controlled, responsible, rational, ordered. Conversely, the shadow of the senex is the puer, related to Hermes or Dionysus—unbounded instinct, disorder, intoxication, whimsy." (Source)
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u/Epinnoia 1d ago
He owns that trash heap. His rules.
E-loon the man-child likes to restore accounts of people he screws over -- essentially to show them he's the boss.
So glad I deactivated my account there.