Elon Musk: Free Speech is Essential to a Functioning Democracy

By Scott S. Powell

    

      Elon Musk, the richest man in America and the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, said last week that “free speech is essential to a functioning democracy.” When he took on Twitter, saying that “the social media platform was failing to adhere to the principles of freedom of expression,” many wondered what’s up.

      Then on Monday this week it was reported that Musk had put his wallet where his mouth is, buying nearly a 10% ownership of Twitter—a stake worth $3.6 billion and more than four times larger than founder and director Jack Dorsey’s position.  Speculation has ensued that Musk might seek more than a board seat to gain control of Twitter so as to make it a truly free speech platform.  Musk has said numerous times that he is “a free speech absolutist.”

      Well, it’s about time that a wealthy American had the courage to take an overdue step to roll back cancel culture and censorship and promote freedom of expression. After all, the Founders gave freedom of expression, along with freedom of religion and assembly the foremost position in the First Amendment of the Constitution for a reason.  At the time of America’s founding, it was widely believed that the press would play the key role protecting the people from government corruption and abuse of power.    

       What has happened in the latter half of the 20th Century and has continued to accelerate into the present is just the reverse.  Today, the mainstream American press protects one party—the Democrat Party—not the people. And no one can deny that greater corruption has ensued.

      If the mainstream and social media had not censored the Hunter Biden laptop story, which broke in October 2020 in the New York Post, it’s likely that Americans would not now be facing:

·       A Southern border overrun with illegal immigrants and untold criminal elements

·       A return to dependence on hostile foreign governments for oil

·       Rampant inflation, highlighted by a 50-65% hike in prices at the gas pump

·       A demoralized military from the imposition of woke policies and an inexplicably bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan.

·       The FBI intimidation and shakedown of American moms who show up at school board meetings to protest the corruption of their children.  

Elon Musk’s move against the corrupt and fake media can’t come soon enough. Let’s hope his courage is contagious, as America’s future depends on a free press.

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