Make America an Asylum of Liberty Again

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Make America an Asylum of Liberty Again

The recent wave of political arrests in Europe shows that a different kind of Iron Curtain is descending on the Old World. Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, was arrested in France for “complicity” in hosting an encrypted messaging platform that has been used for illegal acts. European Union officials threaten Elon Musk with the same fate. Several British citizens have been arrested for hate speech on social media—as has happened before. Eric…