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> he has sued and insulted and bullied people he disagrees with, he employs gilded-age tactics against workers who want to unionise...

Those aren't related to transparency.

> He has sued whistleblowers,

The logic is that Tesla/Musk are suing whistleblowers to silence them because of embarrassing information. Why would Twitter's algorithms be embarrassing to Musk? Or its moderation policies?

> Words are cheap (especially when you're virtue signalling about things which don't impact your bottom line), but actions speak louder.

Exactly, all the more reason to treat words as a special case and not restrict them.