Guys in theater rated pg. the battle lines are being drawn in the fight over free speech in america. on the side of freedom you have man, elonterichest musk, getting one step closer to liberating twitter from censorshiprs of crazy liberals. the tesla ceo says he secured more than forty six billion dollars for his potential takeover i. and another side you have w former president barack obama who is pushing forhore more censorship online. the first amendment is a check on the power of the state. it doesn t apply to privatek companies like facebook or twitter while content o o moderation can limit the distribution of clearlygo dangerous content, it doesn t go far enoug and so much of the conversation around this information is focused on what peopleet post. the bigger issue is what content these platforms
He makes batteries or he buys. batteries. he s doing this for an economic this is a guy that knows his way around a balance sheet, the profit sheet. so at the end of the day, if t thereha are not money to be made doing this , i doubt he would be doing it. yes. and katiee, isn t it fairou that the founders actually believe that we didn t of truth, weistry to o wanted to actually let the debate happen listening to barack obamama say that the firt amendment is only a check on the state makes in question why he wouldn t want the first amendment to apply to big corporations and to corporations especially that make all of their money on speech, people being ablehe b talk about things. buten then i look back at who president obama really is and he is a student of saul alinsky and solinsky teaches and rules of radicals to control the narrative, to control information. you then control the media and you control everything. and he talked about how , you know, free speech is not being able to dis
Gender and biology. and so they ve shifted from actually dangerous incitement content to any kind of contentto that they deem a risk forpe their political process. and that s why they have no credibility on this. but i think it s highly alarming that the president of united states iss former president is perfectly fine with these monster corporations going after certain speech that he just simplych doesn t like and only one sided greg butler? well, you know, i m an expert? on the constitution and when obama says there is no first amendment protection on social media platforms because they re private, he s actually right. yes.s but it s also wrong because these platforms have now become the single most dominantan platform for the exchange oft fo information. right. other media t like r entities. i think what he doesk is he wants you to believe it s just like fox news or the new york times in which there is no obligation for us to host other people s s ideas.
Freest country in the world. the first amendment,nd the freedom to speak, freedom to practice religion and the freedom to assemble.em i mean, allbl of that is fundamental to who we arehi and this concept that somehows they can stop us from communicating. and make no mistake, when we communicate by email, we yearsrs ago would have done by mail and now we re doing it via email and they are looking at our communications, my emails, my letters. so to speak, to another personan saying you can t say that you can t say that we re going to take you off so you can t repeat this . this is the antithesis of the constitution and what free speechns is all about. and he what obama is doing is he is cultivating now the concept that we can moderate things that contentt moderation and now we can get rid r of this information which leads us to the place where if youon don t agree with what i think you will be shut down and we ve