Until Musk owns the place, I see no reason he would not be at their mercy just like everyone else.
A publicly traded platform like Twatter should be *required* to maintain a cesspool of free speech; a nice punch bowl of verbiage, turds and all, just like public schools should be required to permit every kind of teaching. Hence, as it turns out, publicly owned entities are by nature mediocre at best.
I prefer the excellence found in privately owned, moderated speech forums like this one, zots and all.
Musk owns only 20% of Tesla, and sill totally controls the company.
And Musk is not “everyone else”. He owns 9.2% of the company Twitter, is the richest man by far on the planet, the world's greatest entrepreneur and has the wherewithal to take over Twitter whenever he wants. He can and will strike back if necessarily.