X-owner Elon Musk is nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for being a ‘stout proponent of free speech’

Elon Musk
Multi-billionaire Elon Musk was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by a Norwegian lawmaker who praised the X-owner as a “stout proponent for free speech.”
Ariel Zilber for The New York Post:
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Marius Nilsen, a Norwegian member of parliament who is a member of the libertarian Progress Party, said he put forward Musk’s name due to his “adamant defense of dialogue, free speech and [enabling] the possibility to express one’s views” in a “continuously more polarized world.”
Nilsen also praised Musk for providing Starlink satellite internet connectivity to Ukrainian soldiers who were in dire straits following the launch of the Russian invasion of their country two years ago.
“The multitude of tech companies Musk has founded, owns or runs, aimed at bettering societies, increasing knowledge of both earth and space, in addition to enabling communication and connectivity globally… has helped make the world a more connected and safer place,” Nilsen said.
Aside from X and SpaceX, the world’s richest person also heads electric car maker Tesla, tunnel-digging firm The Boring Company and brain chip implant pioneer Neuralink.
As of Monday, Musk’s fortune was valued at $213 billion by Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
In late 2022, he acquired Twitter for $44 billion with the aim of allowing unfettered speech.

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MacDailyNews Take: Unfortunately, the Nobel Peace Prize has been rendered a joke in recent decades. It’s now, by its own committees’ doing, pretty much worthless. Politics doesn’t have to taint everything, but over time, as awards and such are handed out by weak-minded people who’ve ascended via The Peter Principle, politics does indeed eventually seem to taint everything.
Regardless, Musk has arguably done much for free speech and open communications, hence, peace, as The Twitter Files, pre-Musk Twitter, and, now, a much freer X (not to mention Starlink, etc.) attest.
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