Canadian Conservative politician Andrew Scheerpicked up on this strange phenomenonback in April, saying that that the corporate media framing free speech as a “right wing value” was just plain weird. As though to drive home the point, Twitch’s Zachary Ryancalled Musk a right-wingeron Monday. And over the weekend, entrepreneur Samir Tabar had a question for a whiny Robert Reich:
Stop using Musk as your punching bag. Twitter was full of people who had opinions before Musk was around. What you label as ‘misinformation” are just views you don’t like. Deal with it. Since when is free speech a right wing value?
— Samir Tabar (@SamirTabar)December 11, 2022
Answer: since, well, now.
The evolution of this trend is not new. It was less than three years ago that the American Civil Liberties Union — which for decades was committed to an absolutist vision of free speech…
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