As journalists abandoned their principles, others have stepped into the void to protect free speech. Elon Musk has become the savior of open debate online. He bought Twitter, which served the deep-state in censoring stories such as Hunter’s laptop. Your tax dollars went to Twitter to censor you.

Musk succeeded Jack Dorsey, the censoring CEO of Twitter. Before the sale was completed, Dorsey lamented in a tweet, “the days of usenet, irc, the web…even email (w PGP)…were amazing. centralizing discovery and identity into corporations really damaged the internet.

“I realize I’m partially to blame, and regret it.”

Journalists call those the days when the Internet was the wild, wild west — as if that were a bad thing. I get Dorsey’s remorse. The power to censor is overwhelming and toxic. I hope he recovers, finds and marries the woman of his dreams and they have babies by the litter like a cat.

(via Instapundit)

[Calling this ‘sub-optimal’ is an understatement. Billionaires act largely in their own interests and have outsize power to dictate outcomes. When they do act altruistically, it’s still usually in favor of some rent-seeking regulation. But this is what free speech has come down to — a necessary last stand with Elon Musk and, er … not too many others, especially in the Big Tech sector. It’s better than nothing, and it has cost Musk plenty of money and influence, so I’m still grateful for it. But it doesn’t fill me with hope, either. — Ed]