Deliberately Misunderstanding Our Free Speech Rights

From this piece:

Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed, with his purchase of Twitter, that he would turn it into a “digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated.” Yet here are headlines about Musk banning the accounts of journalists for daring to report on some of the shadier moves of the self-appointed champion of “free speech.” 

Anyone who expects any level of honesty and consistency from a Trump supporter, whether he be a billionaire or a factory worker, is an idiot.

And that’s especially true when it comes to free speech.  When “the old Twitter” banned Trump from the platform for inciting an insurrection, the former president’s base lost its mind, because they somehow didn’t understand that the First Amendment applies to government entities and not to private enterprises.

Now, what they’re thinking about Elon Musk banning his critics is anyone’s guess.

 

 

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