There is an old saying: the Internet routes around censorship. Obama learned the hard way when he tried to block piracy sites at Hollywood and Silicon Valley's behest. But the new White House comms director apparently did not get the memo.
Not the Onion (or Babylon Bee). The party that thinks men can get pregnant and women can get prostate cancer, the party that considers mutilation of kids to be "life-affirming care", the party that wants to surveil Elon Musk's computer and business connections but enforce absolute radio silence on Hunter Biden's ... wants to monitor Twitter as a potentially dangerous vector of "misinformation" spread by someone else.
By the way, it's also "misinformation" according to White House standards, that Biden's weirdo nuclear guy who looks like Zippy the Pinhead is a him and not a "them." It's remarkably simple to just block David Duke and Trump's accounts if one does not wish to hear from them. Or to just not have a Twitter account at all. But IMO under no circumstances should this crew of alternative facts be the arbiters of what is and is not truth in the de facto 21st century civilian public square.
If only they cared this much about the kiddie porn and the doxing that's been rampant and Twitter for YEARS!
Honestly, it should concern everyone that a stupid site like Twitter holds this much power. And that the government is in a tizzy simply because this private company changed ownership. The fate of free speech shouldn't rely on whether or not the current administration likes the guy in charge of the biggest social media outlet
The greatest thing Musk could do for humanity is erase Twitter from existence so it can't be a political football anymore. I know he can't do that after spending so much money to aquire it. But it would be a great humanitarian act