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Right after Donald Trump was inaugurated in 2017, I remember doing several posts about editorials and op-eds in major newspapers arguing that maybe the First Amendment wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, and maybe freedom of speech wasn’t such a good thing. It was ironic that the mainstream media, which depends on the First Amendment to operate, suddenly decided that maybe speech was a little too free.
We dodged a bullet by not electing Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Harris told CNN’s Jake Tapper that she was deeply concerned that social media users were “directly speaking to millions and millions of people without oversight.” And Walz made it clear that in his opinion free speech wasn’t a guarantee that you could spread disinformation or hate speech. And who in their administration would be put in charge of overseeing social media and deciding what was disinformation? Fortunately, our Disinformation Governance Board was short-lived.
Elon Musk said in August that free speech was the bedrock of democracy. “The degree to which freedom of speech is being undermined around the world is extremely alarming,” he said. I’m especially concerned about the United…
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