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So Sad: Musk’s Teen Child Wants Name Change, Cuts Ties With Billionaire Dad


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Free speech crusader and billionaire tech titan Elon Musk has made some powerful enemies in recent years.

Unfortunately, one of his harshest detractors appears to be his 18-year-old child.

According to Fox News:

Xavier Alexander Musk just recently turned 18 and has asked the court to recognize the gender change from male to female and to register a new name, according to court documents.

The new name would be Vivian Jenna Wilson, taking the mother’s last name, TMZ reported.

Musk’s child said that “she wants to be recognized as female,” according to the outlet.

It was not immediately clear what caused the rift between father and child.

Although Musk has never disparaged trans individuals, he has opined about the length to which modern society has gone to accommodate gender identities.

He has also come under fire from some on the left for a bid to buy Twitter and implement more robust free speech standards to the platform.

Of course, he has also attracted plenty of praise from many on the right.

Musk did not immediately respond to reports about his child’s decision, but he has been vocal about his plans to revolutionize Twitter.

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As Mashable reported earlier this year:

Here’s the rundown: Musk plans to increase Twitter’s annual revenue to a whopping $26.4 billion by 2028, up from $5 billion in 2021. By then, he also plans to reach 931 million users, up from 217 million at the end of 2021, with average revenue per user also increasing to $30.22, up from $24.83 last year.

Right now, Twitter makes 90 percent of its money from advertising. But Musk plans to reduce the company’s reliance on ads, and this is where that “slight cost for commercial users” comes in – by 2028, Musk plans to generate $12 billion in revenue from advertising, and $10 billion from subscriptions, with the rest of the revenue coming from payments, data licensing, etc.

This could mean a massive change to how Twitter operates right now. Yes, the company has an experimental, paid version called Twitter Blue (Musk also plans to have 159 million subscribers for that by 2028), but the basic version of the service is free for everyone. Musk seems to think that businesses and governments will see enough value in Twitter’s platform to start paying a fee to access it, a hypothesis that hasn’t yet been tested on a major, general purpose social media platform. Twitter’s major competitors, such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat, are all free, but make the bulk of their money in advertising.

Here’s a recent clip of the Tesla CEO emphasizing the importance of free speech:



 

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