To anyone with an ounce of respect for freedom, Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, now X, is a bright light in an otherwise dark decade of woke censorship. Liberty, on this conception, is not the socialist, Nazi, communist, fascist, Rousseauian, Hegelian, Marxist idea, which claims that freedom is only possible when individual conscience is subsumed within a state or a community, but the notion that individuals, ceteris paribus, should be able to articulate their beliefs without being censored or punished.
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