Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging

truth.

To the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Americans, throughout our nation's history, have always defined ourselves in terms of liberty,

where the land of the free, the home of the brave.

Our national holiday is Independence Day.

We frame all of our wars as wars of liberation.

Most recently, we face down the twin tyrannies of fascism and communism, making liberty

of conscience and the untethered flow of information, hallmarks of our free society.

But suddenly, however, it seems that freedom of speech has become something controversial.

For example, that we might expect self-professor liberals to fear that the richest man in the

world who already has his hands in multiple key industries to use his newfound power at

Twitter to suppress dissent, not allowing marginalized and unpopular voices to be heard.

Instead, they seem to be worried that he won't suppress dissent.

And he will allow those they don't like to stay on the platform.

Remember the days of relativism where we were told that all ideas are equally true, all

voices equally valid?

Remember the post-modern idea that since all authorities are equally biased, then all

are equally false, and there's only what's true for you and what's true for me?

Well those were the good days.

There were some voices, however, who did predict that this idyllic state of tolerance would

not last.

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