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Two things could bring Elon Musk to heel on free speech

The billionaire has bowed to two things overseas: threats of jail for employees and wholesale throttling or blocking of X itself.

Nick Bonyhady
Nick BonyhadyTechnology writer

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Elon Musk doesn’t like doing as he’s told.

Since the world’s third-richest man bought Twitter and renamed it X, the company has allegedly refused to: give legally required notice for redundancies, pay out the contracts of executives it made redundant, pay severance to a disabled man made redundant, pay for office fit outs, pay for offices, pay for office clean-ups, pay for server usage and pay the news anchor Don Lemon for an interview show on X.

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