Elon Musk appears to be throttling the reach of the New York Times on Twitter

Elon Musk's ownership of Twitter is going exactly as you’d expect from a thin-skinned tyrant in the workplace.

From the very beginning, Musk has been highly selective in how he’s applied his supposed free speech principles.

Musk appears to be throttling the reach of the New York Times on the platform, as evidenced by a drastic drop-off since July in shares and engagement tweets for the paper's stories.

As stories about tech censorship continue to pile up, it should be a reminder of the ease with which these platforms that have become so integral to news publishing and political discourse can, in the wrong hands and with the wrong policies, be easily turned against us to crush political expression and press freedoms. It’s a crusade that poses dangers for the Left in particular..