Michael Steele: Musk Publishing ‘Twitter Files’ Undermines Some of the Tenets of Free Speech

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STEELE: "I guess with Musk it's to prove that, 'Hey, I am the right kind of Republican,' meaning 'I am a Trump Republican, I am an election denying Republican.' I don’t know what kind of Republican he is. I mean, probably next year he will be an independent or a Democrat depending on how the wind blows. But the reality of it is, putting those things back on the platform, juxtapositioned with the argument that he is all about free speech, really undermines some of the essential tenets of free speech, is that it is about, yes, the freedom of you to say things, but not at the harm or expense of someone else. And so, when you're perpetuating lies and so forth, you're really kind of laughing in the face of this idea of what the platform he claims is supposed to be. For the party, they love it. I mean they have the world — one of the world’s richest men helping them foment that kind of distrust of the system and disinformation where their fingerprints don’t necessarily have to be on it."