their criticism is violence. in thi, s case, twitteobjer objd the phrase learn to code. now, that s a phrase specifically used to mock journalists because that s what journalists told coalminers to do. alminers when thwhen they lost n learned to code. it s not a threat in anyldn way. it s not violence. it s a joke.sa but until last night, you couldn t say it on twitter. of course, you could aim it downward. you could still tell coalwnward miners to learn to code, but ame you couldn trs t help people with power to learn to code.. that s the point. when you eliminate free speech, who do you help the people in charge? only the powerful benefit from censorship. the dail the other, the daily caller, was banned for tellingrn the daily show to learn to code . so the propagandists hadr. protection from twitter. that s the point. and they ve lost it. in blogs like the verge or very upset. the verge is published the verg profanity laced screed that included this amazing line. quote, mos
musk did that.d the bird is freed, he tweeted. then he fired several ofts ceo the company s top executives, including its ceo, parag agarwal. within hours, he pledged to let people laugh online if they wanted to let peopler pu who have been excluded from our public conversation speak. lifting the bans on the bandncle commentators on twitter that would include, presumably, donald trump, the former president , project veritas, a group of journalists, alex jonesists, al and many thos of others. then muspromisk promiseded to me twitter s algorithm transparent. whats twitter twitter s algorih exactly what? we don t have anyav. real ida because no., in seeing it, weelp will now. twitter will no longer be a publicly held company. it ll be a privately heldcohe company. and musk has said he will showm us exactly how it works. apparently, the algorithm has effectively existed tos. censor conservatives on the basis of their political views. so n so now in one day, people
bravery. people assume always that peopssume d toan affor be bold. yor youyou canwa do whatever you want. you re rich, but the opposityoun is true, actually .d, look around. there how many brave billionaires are there? not manyt many. he why?ose. because the more you have,no the more you have to lose.g as there s no such thing as if few money. there s only a few povertyu po.o and yet the richest man in the world is risking it all to save free speech.ends, th whatever you think of elon musk and however this ends, that sg to a remarkable thing te watch or me.r film is the ceo and founderfo of the center fomir american liberty, and she joins us tonight for me. thanks so much for coming. you ve devoted your entire lifeh to defending free speech ins it the courts. and bless you for that. you re one o a f the very fewbig de. still does it does this seem? like a big deal to you? well, well, it s a huge deal , tucker, and i m very excited.elm now, ellenus, usque, like you said, is
free speech.! it s not america, period. a so here you have a guy who comes to america, clearly d a smart guy does very well here. good for him.made $ made like forty two million dollars last year. 42 million las great. and within a few years ofre getting here, decides to it? overturn our civic religion. and nobodbey says anything gn about it. bigon. t to no.is elon musk, also an immigrant toe this w country, by the way, comf here because he understands thatason you freedom of speech e whole reason you would want to live here in the first place. nk a so thing about twitter, before yesterday, was that ite e was censoring people before youv evenen knew you were censored. this is called shadow banning. g alusing algorithms to suppresk information like the new york post, accurate reporting. one hundred biden s laptop. they did a lot o.f that . one remember, one of the things oure i m most excited about in our efforts is to switch proactive enforcement. i think that for too l long we
by politicians to as bk forhat censorship. we should all knowha whappentre happened and transparencisy is the first step to resolving the public trust in this ver sye important platform. so even though i m suing tse, i would love to see these improvements be made. and all of the noises he s making so far , yesterday s terminations of the most egregious anti speech executives at twitter is aand major firstenor up. and now i hope elon musk hires the right people. people are policy. it s going to be very importante for him to make sureader thas t the new leaders of twitter discard all of these bad old- k policies. itis a ind then i think it is a absolutely open horizon for free speech on the internet. nowter:, and tell us exactly when and how government colluded with social media platforms to squelchyou ma political speech. you make such a smart poinh a sr wiying t, i wish i d thought of that myself, but i hope thatll