Elon Musk is once again putting his money where our mouths are.

Elon has just announced that for the first time in the history of big tech, quote,

if you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform,

we will fund your legal bill. No limit. Please let us know. The tweet,

receipt or ex-post or whatever they're calling it out, it doesn't matter.

Came in response to reports that a NASCAR driver was suspended by his league

for liking a meme that referenced George Floyd. We'll get to that story in just a moment.

Elon's offer is welcome, regardless of this particular story, that caused it,

because Elon is proving a hugely important point about free speech

that the right has largely missed. The right misunderstands a lot about free speech.

For at least a couple decades now, the right has defended free speech in the abstract

without getting into the nitty gritty of substance. What exactly it is that we want to say.

We pretended to be neutral and this was always foolish because all societies have standards

and free speech in the abstract means nothing to people who have nothing to say.

But Elon here is proving another important point, which is that free speech in the abstract,

any kind of speech standard really means nothing to people who have no power to enforce it.

So we bleed on and on about the constitution and the bill of rights and the free marketplace of

ideas and then the left censors us. And then we wind some more. And then what happens?

The left censors us some more because the lips have the power to do it.

This is why Elon is so great and revolutionary for the right. He doesn't just pull out his

pocket constitution and explain how, you know, what Google is doing is actually very wrong,

because if you look here in paragraph three, Elon puts up $44 billion and a lot more to come,

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