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Elon, I’m beginning to notice a pretty distinctive pattern. You have an incredible amount to say about free speech, particularly when it’s your own seemingly artificially boosted speech you’re defending. But apparently, things get considerably more complicated when somebody organically starts talking about you. An account called Space Tourist recently published a detailed criticism of your parenting arrangements. Fourteen children, multiple households, and allegations of a system that treats family life like just another corporate operation. You even replied personally. You disputed the account and explained how frequently you see your children. Fair enough. You’re entitled to defend yourself. But then the account was suspiciously suspended. It’s since been restored, and I don’t know who ordered the suspension or why, but considering your position as the owner of this platform and its self appointed grand heavyweight champion of free speech, I think the circumstances deserve an actual explanation. Ya know, for consistency’s sake. Space Tourist has already raised very public questions about your fatherhood. I’m more interested in the culture your companies are helping create, particularly when it comes to free speech and the wellbeing of children. Your AI company, xAI, has faced scrutiny over Grok generating sexualized images, including imagery involving minors. We’ve all heard. California’s attorney general opened an investigation. And while your company was dealing with that controversy, xAI was challenging a Minnesota law restricting AI-generated intimate imagery, invoking the First Amendment. Your company argues the law goes too far. Minnesota argues it’s protecting people from serious harm, including the creation of child sexual abuse material. I have a question for you Eggman. How the fuck did we arrive at a situation where criticism of your parenting can be followed by an account suspension, while your own company is fighting in court over restrictions on technology capable of producing sexualized imagery of children by invoking the First Amendment? Maybe you can explain before your next lecture to humanity about civilization, declining birth rates, and the importance of having more children. Let’s talk about the kids already here. The ones whose safety matters considerably more than your reputation, your ambitions, or the market valuation of your latest technological experiment. You can allegedly have fourteen of them, hundreds of billions of dollars, and an army of humans managing your every affair. Luxuries I’m sure you’d concede that most all fathers don’t possess. None of it makes you an authority on fatherhood. And none of it excuses you from answering questions about the world your companies are helping create right now, in front of our faces. You have every right to defend yourself against criticism Eggman. But so do I. So do the people criticizing you. So do the people soon to be vigorously investigating your companies, I suspect the scrutiny may eventually extend to you personally. Perhaps this January. When your company invokes free speech in a dispute involving protections against child sexual abuse related AI-generated imagery, people are entitled to ask what your principles actually are. Island boy. From where I’m standing, the question isn’t whether you or the rest of us can crank out more kids. I’m far more concerned about whether the world you’re helping build is one you’d want any child to grow up in. Including your own.