Commentary
I have on multiple occasions been an advocate for conservatives (anyone to the right of Trotsky, actually) to abandon Twitter since the company so often censors in big and small ways.
I started having second thoughts when Elon Musk surfaced as a buyer, proclaiming—assuming he does close the deal after months of negotiation—an end to this censorship that reeked of a new form of high-tech fascism—and not just from the notorious blocking of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Musk saw this purchase as the opportunity to open up a new national town square, which would constitute a return to the basic First Amendment principles of our country so abjured by our progressive friends who wish to cancel us at every turn. Hallelujah!…