[dragonwriter]

> Before it was that private companies could do whatever they wanted,

No, it was that “free speech” means private actors are free to make decisions about what content to relay.

Not that everything they choose on that (or any other) is equally good, nor that they shouldn’t be punished in the marketplace (not by the state) for their bad choices.

[adam_arthur]

Yup

That’s why in a free marketplace, Elon asserted his free speech to take over Twitter due to their perceived poor management.

Maybe if they had managed more equitably, none of this would have happened. But the market giveth and the market taketh

[dragonwriter]

> That’s why in a free marketplace, Elon asserted his free speech to take over Twitter due to their perceived poor management.

That’s not really accurate. Twitter’s management took Elon to court to force him to take over so the stockholders they worked for could reap thr windfall ofnthe premium price he regretted offering and tried to tun away from.