That's just the most hypocritical thing to be. Free speech means not being prosecuted by the government, so being a free-speech absolutist as an indiviual is completely meaningless.

If he is trying to be a free-speech absolutist in terms of every opinion being heard equally and fairly without punishment, which is what absolutist implies, he is also a hypocrite as shown in his numerous actions against critics.

Overall, no matter how you spin and turn it, Musk is not a free-speech "absolutist" in any way. He has no specific position on free-speech other than what has the basic law that applies to every citizen.

What a joke.