of that backlog at chinese ports. the lockdown in china that started in mid-march have doubled the number of ships stacked up at china s largest port waiting for a spot to load. all of this signals more supply chain issues for the u.s. coming over the next few months. in 2020 china actually accounted for the single largest supplier of goods into the u.s. 20% of the imports came from china according to the u.s. trade representatives office. dana: a story to watch. thank you, edward. bill: well, he owns it. elon musk pulled off a twitter deal in 12 days. drawing intense criticism already from the left. some calling it dangerous for democracy. musk tweeting yesterday the following. he said i hope that even my worst critics remain on twitter because that s what free speech means, end tweet. seth dillon runs the babylon bee, ceo and banned from twitter for a month. how are you doing and thank you
ways. dana: this week they ll be on the hill demanding that build back better gets passed. we ll see how that goes. mark penn and kellyanne conway. good stuff. bill: the world s richest man to the owner of the social media company. elon musk at the helm of twitter in the fall. how it could revive the fight for free speech. the suspect in the murder of a new york mother of two shared a lot of violent videos online. d . digital tools so impressive, you just can t stop. what would you like the power to do?
island. that is an aside. listen, there are a lot of people out there who have it in for musk right now. elizabeth warren is one of them. the deal is dangerous for democracy. billionaires like musk play by a different set of rules accumulating power for their own gain. we need a wealth tax and strong rules to hold big tech accountable. aacp and it is a site that banned you and for a site that banned the story on hunter biden being investigated by a federal grand jury. that canceled a former u.s. president. the shoe is on the other foot. yeah. they re not afraid of being banned. i have heard a couple of crazy comments about he could come in and make twitter a place where political opponents are silenced or whatever. totally tone deaf to the fact that s what twitter has been up to this point. the thing is i think the important thing to note they
holes in the popular narrative. the way things running up to this point twitter rigged the system that you can only promote the popular narrative. if you try to make jokes about it you are accused of hate speech or misinformation or nefarious for what s really censorship. content moderation is censorship of views and opinions they don t like. musk wants to open that up and say people are allowed to have differences of opinion. it s necessary for people to have differences of opinion and be able to engage with each other and joke about each other or you can t have a healthy democracy. i think it s great he sees that and doing something about it. it is hard to believe this is really happening honestly. i wasn t expecting a ultrarich man to come in and have to fix this problem for us. bill: you are right about that. content moderation thing that s something to watch. a few short years removed from the mass murder in christchurch, new zealand who face timed live the murder spree he went
out there and my guess is if they don t want if they don t want to work at twitter, he will probably just move to texas and he will find programmers from the university of texas-austin to do what needs to be done with twitter. i don t think they have much of a choice in this to be honest with you. dana: do you think you ll see any policy change in the next couple weeks like how it will look different in the next month or so? technically or legally he does not have that type of authority right now. this thing has to close first. it will take a few months for it to close. will we see donald trump theoretically unsuspended from twitter? i don t think so until he takes over and gives clear directives as to what to do. clearly twitter is now going to be under the focus. if they start canceling conservatives as they ve done in the past in the interim, wow, what a story that will be and give more fuel to the debate of why elon musk is needed to run this company. dana: fun to have you