Twitter was never a public square. It's like America now, where everyone wants every institution to confirm to their worldview.
Free speech is about more than spewing your opinions. It’s also about the right to persuade, to listen and to be heard. That can’t happen on Twitter if Musk lets disinformation run wild.
Meanwhile, on the right, jubilation over Musk’s takeover quickly gave way to rage over his troubles. Josh Holmes, a prominent political consultant, former chief of staff to Sen. Mitch McConnell, and normally fairly level-headed political observer, nonethelessthat companies pulling their advertising should face congressional grilling for “leftist corporate extortion” after the GOP takes over the House.
Musk had many legitimate — and some farfetched — criticisms of Twitter under the old ownership. But what he seemed to miss is that Twitter was never a public square. Even in the Norman Rockwell version of the public square, there are enforceable laws and norms dictating what you can and can’t do there. Twitter is more like a “commons,” in economic terms, where different actors want to take advantage of it for their own purposes.
Back in April, when Musk first launched his bid for the company, Abe Greenwald, executive editor of Commentary, had the bestfor why so many Twitter addicts were freaking out. “People believe Twitter is the real world. They therefore believe that Elon Musk is buying the world.” It’s still a mystery why Musk bought Twitter, but maybe he did it because he was under the same impression?
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