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Elon Musk is predictably unpredictable. 

The whimsical CEO of Tesla  (TSLA) – Get Tesla Inc Report  is never where you expect him to be. 

When a large number of CEOs do everything to avoid being in the spotlight, he embraces them. He is not afraid to provoke controversy by sometimes making thunderous statements, or to take positions that he knows will irritate his detractors. 

That’s all Elon Musk. 

The serial entrepreneur — he is involved in four prominent companies (Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company and Neuralink) and is in the process of acquiring a fifth (Twitter  (TWTR) – Get Twitter, Inc. Report) — now sees himself as a global CEO whose responsibility is to talk on a large number of burning issues of our time.

A so-called “whistleblower” website that allows users to report suspected abortions in Texas has gone offline after web hosting company GoDaddy said it had violated its terms.

“Last night, we informed prolifewhistleblower.com they have violated GoDaddy’s terms of service and have 24 hours to move to a different provider,” the company said in a statement on Friday.

The site, run by anti-abortion campaigners Texas Right to Life, was set up in the wake of a new Texas law that effectively outlaws abortions in the US state, making them illegal in all circumstances once a medical professional is able to detect a fetal heartbeat.

The site’s owners said on Friday that it would be up and running again with a new provider “within 24 to 48 hours”.

However at the time of writing, the whistleblower tip…

AWS has revoked its hosting services from the “free speech” social network Parler after finding a number of posts inciting violence. 

Parler was founded in 2018 but drew increased attention earlier this month after Twitter’s decision to permanently suspend the account of US President Donald Trump. Like many of its Silicon Valley peers, Twitter has been accused of stifling debate, having a liberal bias and harming free speech.