Opinion | Conservatives cheering on Elon Musk have been sold a bill of goods

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Opinion | Conservatives cheering on Elon Musk have been sold a bill of goods
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Opinion by Paul Waldman and Greg Sargent: Conservatives cheering on Elon Musk have been sold a bill of goods

The prospect of a Musk takeover is making liberals angry, so itWhere did these politicians share these dangerously controversial views? On Twitter, of course, where somehow they slipped their samizdat tweets past the censors.This GOP hailing of Musk as a conquering hero has gotten so out of hand that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is threatening to target Twitter’s board for reducing its exposure to a possible hostile takeover attempt from Musk.

That’s because if Musk does capture Twitter, he’ll collide headlong with a bunch of messy realities that he is wishing away right now.he generally thinks speech should be “as free as possible” and that he’d err in the direction of not banning people and not taking down posts. , which protects platforms from lawsuits for liability for content and protects them if they remove content in good faith.

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