Eighteen months ago, Elon Musk bought Twitter and opened its files to expose the Big Tech/government censorship complex under the guise of fighting ‘misinformation.’ The resulting outrage appeared to have platforms distancing themselves from such efforts, at least at first.
However, one brief soliloquy from the film Serenity has run through my mind ever since Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and Michael Shellenberger first made clear just how deeply the federal law enforcement and health bureaucracies had interfered with debate and dissent. Had exposure from the Twitter Files really discouraged further efforts by government and Big Tech, especially aimed at conservative media and voices? Chiwetel Ejiofor’s lament as The Operative resonates in this context especially well today:
It’s not over yet. I can’t guarantee that they won’t come after you — the Parliament. Your broadwave about…
