> "But “free speech” in the 21st century means something very different than it did in the 18th, when the Founders enshrined it in the Constitution. The right t

> "But “free speech” in the 21st century means something very different than it did in the 18th, when the Founders enshrined it in the Constitution. The right to say what you want without being imprisoned is not the same as the right to broadcast disinformation to millions of people on a corporate platform." I think whether one is for or against Musk buying Twitter, we should agree that a journalist that can't distinguish between the First Amendment and the broader principle of freedom of speech (which is what inspired the 1st A.) is unlikely to have written anything worth reading. And if that is insufficiently persuasive, the author later on denigrates people who are technically educated (particularly ironic given the above). "Tech titans often have a different understanding of speech than the rest of the world because most trained as engineers, not as writers or readers, and a lack of a humanities education might make them less attuned to the social and political nuances of speech."