From my Free Republic experience, it appears that the alternative to censorship is blasted propaganda. If you can’t silence the opposition, you drown them with noise.
The Internet, as a source of information, has already passed its zenith. Long-trusted authorities like encyclopedia have been swept aside, by it. Newspapers have been fishwrap for decades.
It’ll be interesting to see if Musk can come up with anything, though I think that his belief that he should is misplaced.
Cheap shot.