Who would have thought the NAACP and the ACLU would team up to tell a web host it should restrict free speech on Twitter?
Opening Twitter up to strident conservative voices and others who differ from liberal and progressive bellyaching is what is feared by the nation’s two largest “rights” organizations, the NAACP, which professes to speak mostly for half a million African Americans, and the even better-endowed American Civil Liberties Union, which used to oppose censorship of dissenting ideas.
Acceding to censorship is the upshot of the NAACP and ACLU’s counsel to Elon Musk, who is buying Twitter. Both groups deplore and fear the website being opened to “haters” — to voices that disagree with mainstream Black people and mainline white progressives.
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