https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5q7wx/the-right-ecstatic-elon-musk-bought-twitter-to-literally-own-the-libs > Conservatives and the right are widely celebrating Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, and are basking in the “liberal tears” that come with the world’s richest man spending $43 billion to, as they see it, literally own the libs.  > “I think it’s very telling that you have some of these legacy media outlets in D.C. and New York saying this was such a bad thing because Musk believes in free speech … it seems like this big tech companies including Twitter have gone from being open platforms to being enforcers of a narrative,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said before signing a bill about election security. “We are 100 percent supportive of what Twitter’s board of directors did to accept Elon Musk’s offer.”