The right to free speech is a crucial one that is only honored in the United States. Bureaucrats in Europe and elsewhere are trying to impose their own restrictions on American speech and their American counterparts are, unfortunately, keen on joining them.

The problems have been most evident with the treatment of X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter that was purchased by Elon Musk. His purchase wrestled control of the website away from the censorious American liberal mindset, full of “safety teams” and executives who were receptive to censorship requests from government officials. Musk, his own contradictions aside, replaced Twitter’s censorious regime with one that allows for far freer political discussions.