Free speech doesn't mean being able to say anything one wants on every platform one wants to say it on. There are real free speech issues out there but I don't see how this is one of them.

I see nothing good about some billionaire buying a communication medium millions of people use every day but I'm happy to be told why this is better than Twitter being a public company.

I too am a fan of free speech. In academia, in theory, that's what the tenure system is for.

It seems to me that the issue is one of society being less or more accepting, not so much twitter censorship.