Why Elon Musk has rattled them – spiked
Amid all the fume and fury we see that censorship has become a core part of liberal-elite ideology. Politicians, think-tankers and commentators have got it into their heads that the threat to democracy comes not from censorship, but from an excess of freedom of speech and that the state, Big Tech and corporate media must all do their bit to censor and protect civilisation.
That this is the precise opposite of what liberal thinkers used to say doesn t seem to bother them. They use euphemisms like content moderation and fighting misinformation to justify the silencing of their political opponents. So rattled were these people by the Trump revolt which they blamed on social-media algorithms and Russian bots they now believe that censorship is all that stands between America and fascism.
Sadly, I don’t think Elon’s run at twitter is going to succeed, for a lot of reasons, but mostly because the market doesn’t seem to think it will. But Musk certainly has smoked out some of these so-called “liberals” in the pro-censorship, anti-freedom of thought party. Free expression for me but not for thee seems to be their mantra. Good getting that learnt.