Two weeks after Elon Musk took over X almost a year ago, antisemitic posts referring to Jews or Judaism rose more than 61%, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an
and ideas and the best ideas will rise to the top? isn t that been the american way? without question. i think when we say we re free speech absolutist, we re all fudging a little bit because the court has said you can t yell fire in a crowdeded theate. we see a prominent case that taking place i think between two actors in virginiaa that based on libel or defamation. so there s certain things you can t say and the law protectsht that being the case. you re right, i sean, i in termf i want free speech, i want a free debate. some of this harkens back a little bit to the conversations we were having around education and some of the things taughtt being in schools. i think it s important that we present ideas and may unsettle people right. for us to be able to have conversations and have these debates and even if the best ideas don t rise, at least we inform and educate people about what the issues are. and finally, we should notmi be mistaken. elon musk isst pursuing this . he s the ric
asked about him, people wondered if he really was serious when he did not take that seat on the board. but why would you. they ve invited you to sit at a party, when they are probably not going to listen to. even though you own 9.1, 9.2%. because he made a big guy already. pete: he beat biden himself to the party. and if he took a seat at the port he would be limited in what he could buy and what he could do. clearly he had grander plans from the beginning paired shannon come at your point, i love the fact that heads are exploding inside, twitter heads with these blue checkmarks, they ve grown up in a cocoon where speech is violent. speech absolutist are dangerous. that s where the clashes. we have a lot of young people who believe in this idea that disinformation is dangerous. that you cannot tweet out the wrong gender pronoun for someone here that needs to be shut down. this is a total clash of worldviews. of whether or not we should have absolute free speech. that s why, elon musk
another fighter in the battle for free speech is stepping in. elon musk was appointed to twitters board of directors a day after the disclosure that the billionaire space cadet is now the company s largest shareholder after buying up nearly 10% of the company. twitter decided to let a fox mine the head house. news about a potential new social media platform. right-wing mirrors are just giddy about the self proclaimed free speech absolutist joining twitters board. the house is dumbest member wasted no time asking him to bring back the bad orange man. twitter says it has no plans to reverse any policy decisions, but others who got the boot are also openly lobbying to be reinstated. loud and proud white nationalist nick fuentes was also begging for his account back, adding that banning him was a bigger deal than banning trump.