An Open Letter to Elon Musk

My Plea to the World’s Richest Man to Save America for Americans

Dear Mr. Musk, 

At the moment, America is going dark and it’s happening fast. The exercise of free speech and assembly is under siege by the government. This has been true for years, as you probably know. It’s become truer in recent days. The Constitution’s First Amendment is endangered. Censorship seems imminent. Extreme pressure not merely to silence or filter one’s thoughts but to harm and punish those with “wrong” thoughts comes from the press, industry and every collective, cartel and clique and it’s permeating every gathering space in America. This hostility takes varying forms. But everywhere you go, every day, whether a grocery store or a video conference and in messages, calls and various types of correspondence, what you think and say is too tempting to suppress. It’s as if Thought Purge and fear of expression is mandatory.

You know it. Twitter bans, punishes and targets freethinkers. Facebook banned a phrase adopted by Americans who support Donald Trump’s electoral results ch…