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Welcome to the Liz Truss school of free speech: you can criticise anyone – except her | Gaby Hinsliff

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Liz Truss was heckled by activists Led by Donkeys at a book event in Suffolk .

The stunt was to suppress free speech’ (her) and not an exercising of free speech (theirs) The stunt happened hours after she fiercely defended Elon Musk’s decision to let X users say whatever they liked about other people on his platform.

Keir Starmer ’s veiled hint that he would “look more broadly at social media’ regulation after the riots triggered much rightwing squawking about how nobody knows what they’re free to say any more under this supposed new socialist tyranny.

But if the inalienable right to throw vile racist slurs at black footballers is one that X users can currently exercise with confidence.

The rate at which users and advertisers are deserting X for less toxic platforms suggests many of us are now exhausted and repelled by culture a free-for-all has produced.