Just a point of clarification, he hired the private detective before he was sued.
D'oh, thanks, I've fixed that mistake in my comment.
You can admit Elon is extremely petty and short-sighted in private personal matters but admit he still attempts to do good in the greater scheme. That's where I'm at personally. I despise his lack of consistency and restraint in his position of power, but still respect his wider goals in reducing censorship and making bold investments in technological moon shots.
I'm cynical though, I only see lesser evils as all you can wish for in politics and culture. Trusting in politicized public figures = pure disappointment
The most sympathetic scenario re: twitter (ignoring the other Musk issues around FSD/pre-Twitter stuff): a few very public examples of him censoring people for petty reasons VS pre-Musk twitter banning (or silently shadowbanning) many thousands who happened to fall outside the current-thing Overton Window, using equally or worse biased/misguided reasons (ie, 'misinformation') and quietly taking requests from gov/intel agencies... still a net gain over all. But tons of work to be done.
He was derisive of Musk, who wanted Tesla engineers to help rescue the trapped children.
Musk responded to this criticism by calling Unsworth a "pedo" and "child rapist". After Unsworth sued him for defamation, Musk hired a private detective to investigate Unsworth, presumably hoping to intimidate him.
Flawed is liking pineapple on pizza, not using your platform of millions of followers to call someone a child rapist. That's worthy of contempt to me.