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Long before Elon Musk came along and bought Twitter, turning it into the free speech platform now known as X, the social media site was the left’s sandbox and they just assumed they had the right to say who could play in it. When conservatives balked at the unfair treatment they received, they looked for alternatives, such as Parler and Gab.Â
Oh, how the left laughed at conservatives for both prizing free speech and despising the attempts to silence voices on the right. They mocked the rise of alternative social media and the determination of the right to find a more level playing field away from Twitter.Â