Not the main point but further down the thread he also says a Democratic President couldn’t abolish ICE without congressional approval, or use a line item veto on appropriated spending. That may be true in theory, but try telling that to USAID.

As an academic, I feel strongly that it’s unethical for me to sell subscription-only content in a newsletter. I am already being paid to do intellectual work and share it with the world. Asking people to pay me for my analysis would be a kind of embezzlement.

Presumably there's also a tension between that business model and Musk's desire for it to be a vector for broader political and cultural influence though. I don't know that it's tenable for X to simultaneously be the world's premier news platform and its premier porn platform.

I think there's definitely scope for an article that interrogates this idea, both in terms of how exceptional the 1A actually is, and compares its performance critically to other international models.

I was thinking of putting something together over the summer if you're interested collaborating.

I do agree that there's a categorical distinction when compared against countries, like the UK or Australia, which have *no* constitutionally entrenched freedom of expression.

But generally, I find that proponents of the 1A tend to overstate how internationally exceptional it is.