Free speech is essential to liberty, Elon, not ‘democracy’

Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson have both done a great service to the American public, but their ideas about what makes a free country still seem confused.

No one has done more to secure free speech in the United States in the past several years than Elon Musk. By buying X, the social media platform formerly known as “Twitter,” Musk has provided a platform where content that would be banned or suppressed in virtually every other online space, including Twitter before Musk owned it, can be shared freely amo…