Musk's free speech advocacy seems to apply mostly to his own speech or that of his fans and promoters.
In August 2018, a former Tesla security employee, Karl Hansen,with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission saying he was wrongfully terminated from his job as an investigator at the company's battery plant in Sparks, Nevada, after sounding the alarm about the theft of tens of millions of dollars' worth of raw materials there. Tesla hid the theft from shareholders, he alleged, even though it represented a material amount of money to the automaker at the time.
He has brazenly called on followers to edit his biography on Wikipedia. "Just looked at my wiki for 1st time in years. It's insane!" Musk tweeted. "Btw, can someone please delete 'investor.' I do basically zero investing," he said. His legions of followers obliged, editing the page to de-emphasize his investments.
In an agreement that Tesla sent to drivers earlier this year for FSD Beta access, the company asked them to "keep your experiences in the program confidential" and not to "share any information about this program with the public" including by taking screenshots, creating blog posts, or posting to social media sites.
"Given that NHTSA relies on reports from consumers as an important source of information in evaluating potential safety defects, any agreement that may prevent or dissuade participants in the early access beta release program from reporting safety concerns to NHTSA is unacceptable," NHSA wrote in a letter to Tesla inMeanwhile, in China, Tesla has sued customers who complained about safety issues with their cars, and...
Attorneys on behalf of Tesla and Musk have also tried to keep transcripts and videos of employee and executive testimony hidden in cases before the Delaware Chancery court and other courts.Recently, he said SpaceX satellite internet service Starlink would keep Russian news sources online, despite what Musk said were calls to block these by un-named governments amid Putin's brutal invasion of Ukraine.
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