Throughout Donald Trump’s election campaign, a growing number of big-name Silicon Valley figures attached themselves to the MAGA bandwagon. They were drawn not just by the lure of access to power, but by Trump’s promises to free up social media, in particular, from any and all content restrictions; to promote cryptocurrencies; and to corrode regulatory oversight of the high-tech titans. Overseas, an increasing number of far right politicians began emulating Trump’s language, wooing Big Tech and claiming that governments in their countries were censoring controversial ideas. However improbably, the avatars of the far right began describing themselves as defenders of free speech in an increasingly intolerant age.

This dynamic was on full display this month in Washington, D.C., when Nigel F

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