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The Thatcher Government created Channel 4 in order to give a platform to minority interests, and was aghast at the programmes that ensued, with Norman Tebbit bewailing that it was supposed to have covered "golf, sailing and fishing".

The Government wants to privatise the Channel Four Television Corporation, so Elon Musk should consider a bid of one billion pounds, including a commitment to maintain its public service remit, itself including both Channel 4 News and the Paralympics.

He should promise that, while the channels themselves would remain free-to-air, everyone who signed up online for free, or who paid a very small subscription to do it by post, would be entitled to elect the members of an Editorial Board, with each of us voting for one self-nominated candidate, and with the highest scoring 14 being elected for a four-year term, provided that all decisions would then require the assent of a Chair appointed for such a term by Musk himself. 

Twitter is now publishing the details of its own suppression, under its previous owners, of the story of Hunter Biden's laptop. In itself, that story is common knowledge now. But it was denied for long enough, and the details were certainly not generally known at the time of 2020 Presidential Election. Hence their suppression, now admitted in full by Twitter itself under Musk. Let's be having some of that.