Commentary More than any principle, freedom of speech is what makes America, America. Other defining characteristics exist—many extremely important as well—but once we have lost the ability to express our opinions openly, we are no longer the semblance of a democratic republic. Other principles are automatically undermined. For some time now, this freedom has been under assault, via the cancel culture and other forms of suppression, including, lately, business censorship, most often in the name of supposed “misinformation.” “Fact-checkers”abound to keep us on the straight and narrow of their version of “truth.”  The Washington Post—the newspaper, we now know and even they finally admit, lied about Trump-Russia collusion on its front page for nearly two years—embarrassingly features one of these “fact-checkers,” doling out “Pinocchios” to one and all. Worse yet are the social media companies.  Facebook and Twitter (of Hunter Biden fame) have hundreds, maybe thousands of such censors, commonly …