can say no to that, and that means the board needs to do something like a poison pill in order to give itself more power. and what do you think twitter would look like with elon musk at the helm? should that happen? well, elon musk yeah, elon musk calls himself a free speech absolutist, doesn t have a lot of past experience in social networks, but he is one of the most followed people on the platform. he has more than 80 million followers, and a tremendous amount of influence. he does understand twitter maybe more than some of the people on the board. but i think under twitter he would have a lot of issues with trying to figure out that content moderation question which twitter has struggled with for years. even if you believe in free speech, there are some fundamental issues with social media s speech with the elements of viralality, with the potential for harassment, for violent speech, and so you know, high spoke at ted this week
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his field of 20 plus candidates. voters need to be fired up in order for a democrat to win the white house. in order for anybody to win the white house. voters need to feel passion about their candidate. they need to wear the t-shirts, knock on doors, quit their jobs for the last month of the campaign. they need to put their yard signs out. it has to be. it s the only thing that has worked. 100 million people did not vote in 2016. and when you look at who those people are who didn t vote, the majority of them are progressive people, young people, people of color, who would have made a difference in wisconsin, michigan, in the blue-wall states. part of the problem is that messages like the one joe biden is trying to give say i m not willing to fight for your problems. let s do a little bit better than we ve done in the past. that s not going to get people out to vote. that s not going to get people to be passionate. and i just want to say something about this moderation question. it s
ideology to get in the way of what is the responsibility of the senator an indeed the need of the country to have people come together and find the commonground. speaking of senators thrown out in part around this moderation question, let s bring in former pennsylvania senator arlen specter who represented his years for 30 years in the senate, first as a republican and then later as a democrat, and the and the author of life among the cannibals. and that sort of title tells you about what is in the book. yu went through this yourself, and you were known as a contrarian, but your decision to break with your party and vote for the president s stimulus package cost you your seat. are you the exception to this, or are you the rule? no. that is what is happening in washington today, melissa. that is why charles robins and i wrote this book life among the