"Across the varied arguments advanced by conservatives in recent decades, one consistent principle is readily discernible: Where a speaker is engaging in activism on behalf of conservative causes, they have an unfettered right to freedom of speech. Where they are not, or where they actively oppose those causes, their speech is subject to state suppression. This holds true for all of these “free speech” controversies: Citizens United, education gag laws, attacks on public libraries, hand-wringing over “cancel culture,” and the latest demands for state control of social media..." -- Adam Serwer, writing in The Atlantic on "Why Conservatives Invented A 'Right To Post.'" Serwer's piece is a detailed read on how we got to the point where, as he writes, multi- billionaire troll Elon Musk "asserted a First Amendment right to see the president’s son’s penis, an argument that the Framers likely did not anticipate." It's no wonder Musk is confused about the First Amendment, though, since he was born and lived in South Africa until age 18, then was a citizen of Canada before becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen only 20 years ago. Wonder who he paid to take his citizenship test?
