Three months ago, Elon Musk said he had to buy Twitter in order to save it—and, by extension, free speech in America and also the world. The site had become too siloed and too partisan for his liking. Above all, he believed the hoary social media platform was betraying the fundamental values of the internet. To unlock the “tremendous potential” of Twitter, it had to have more speech, less moderation, and fewer fake accounts.
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Storytelling is one of our oldest pastimes because it is central to the human experience. Few can resist the emotional potency of a good narrative, not even the Supreme Court. Sometimes these stories just happen to intersect with the justices’ preexisting priorities, as they did in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District. Sometimes, as in Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta, they strike the right nerve with the right number of justices. And sometimes they don’t hold up to scrutiny at all, with significant implications for the law. Читать дальше...
