Godspeed to Elon Musk

Well, it’s actually happened. Elon Musk has bought Twitter. “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy,” Musk said in a statement yesterday afternoon, “and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.” We wish him well in his attempt to make that “digital town square” more open, less arbitrary, and better suited to the potential of the Web.

Almost to a man, critics of the purchase have begun warning about the “Wild West” that will result if Musk gets his way. But,...