Remember Musk's Bid for CCP Support of Microchips as Twitter Deal Goes Ahead

There’s been a lot of jubilation and triumph from conservatives and other pro-free speech voices as Elon Musk is reportedly going ahead with his deal to buy Twitter. But just as when the deal was first announced, I think it’s necessary that we take a step back and ask ourselves if Elon Musk is to be trusted.

Sure, he said a lot of great things about free speech and the importance of families and support for solid conservative politicians like Ron DeSantis, but what do his actions tell us about him? And if Musk is so pro-free speech, why did he recently write an article for a Chinese state publication seeking support of his microchips and other tech from the least pro-free speech government in the world?

I have previously emphasized that Elon Musk is a transhumanist—that is, he believes in “augmenting” humans, including by brain chips, with the ultimate goal of supposedly achieving immortality. Musk’s Tesla also has a policy of paying for employees’ out-of-state abortion costs after the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Furthermore, Musk has invested an immense amount of money and effort into his Tesla China branch, where there was a scandal about how inhumanely Shanghai Tesla workers were being forced to work/live during the city’s insane Covid lockdowns. A Tesla China VP also praised the genocidal Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on Chinese state media.

But most suspicious of all is Musk’s recent article in a publication of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC). CAC is an official government agency of the genocidal CCP, and CAC oversees various invasive and authoritarian government efforts, including the CCP’s collection of data—including “non-private data”—from Chinese-based tech companies. Yet Musk penned an article a couple months ago for a CAC publication trying to inspire increased Chinese support for his artificial intelligence (AI), space travel, and microchips. Because apparently there’s no one more to be trusted on brain chips and AI than the worst tyrannical regime on the planet.