 A little bit about God, the hysteria and the panic on the left, primarily on the left, although there are people on the right who aren't happy about this, but the panic and hysteria on the left about Elon Musk buying Twitter. I mean, there really is a panic, remember, this is the left that used to be, used to be. In Ayn Rand's day, certainly, used to be pro-free speech. One of the arguments about the right wants to violate our rights in one way and the left wants to violate our rights in a different way, but the virtue of the left was that they were the party of free speech and really the right was pro-censorship, pro-limits on free speech and pro-limits on exercising our first amendment right. I don't think that is flipped because I don't think the right is pro-free speech, but it suddenly has become true that the left is anti-free speech and that the left is completely rejected and it's not in terms of just kind of legal free speech from the perspective of government because I think that in the United States is still, at least at the federal level, pretty well protected. It's protected by a court that has been, over the last, I'd say, 10 years, maybe one of the best courts for free speech issues around and here I give credit to the conservatives on the court that have really been defenders of free speech, but the left has become an advocate for a culture of limiting the conversation, of limiting what's acceptable, of limiting what is expressed on public forums, at universities, and of course on social media. And what Elon Musk has said is that on Twitter, when he buys Twitter, he intends to expand what is permissible in terms of on Twitter. Again, it's a private company. I think the previous regime on Twitter had every right to decide what the limitations they wanted, what things they wanted and did not want to be expressed on Twitter. And I think Elon Musk as a private, as a new owner of Twitter, has a right to define those parameters any way he wants. As I've said often before, I think he's going to discover that it's a much trickier, much trickier to do it than it is to argue for it, but we will see. I might be wrong and he might know exactly what he's doing. But what is horrifying and amusing at the same time is kind of the panic on the left as if this is somehow some kind of disaster that is going to befall the country, the fact that more people will be able to express themselves on Twitter. God, the world will end. And it also is bringing out, you're seeing partially with this misinformation, Council or board or whatever they call it, that the Biden administration is creating. But they view as misinformation, which is the kind of stuff that they want off of Twitter and it ultimately I think they want the government to somehow ban or censor a limit or whatever. Hard to tell exactly. We'll see how this evolves. So it's what's going on right now is very, very revealing of the left's kind of really horrific anti speech, not necessarily and now with the with this board, their inclination to censor, at least the inclination to flag things they don't like is misinformation. It really is things they don't like. So as part of the campaign to kind of make Elon Musk look bad, the New York Times wrote a profile of Musk. And I mean, the profile is fine and there's nothing in the profile that really should cause anybody to, oh my God, he's a monster. They couldn't find they didn't find the dirt on him that I think they were looking for. So which was interesting. This sentence from this article and it's shocking and it truly shocking and it's it's it's upsetting that this is the great New York Times. So what was a long time ago, the great New York Times just just the logic and the incapacity to think that this couple of sentences reflect. So here, as you probably know, Elon Musk is an immigrant. He emigrated to the United States from well from Canada, but originally from South Africa. He is in South Africa. And here is here is the sentence about him growing up in South Africa. Elon Musk grew up in a South Africa that saw the dangers of unchecked speech. Now that should just make you fall over. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? Grew up in a South Africa that saw the dangers of unchecked speech. I mean, South Africa under apartheid was a country of censorship of government censorship. South Africa under apartheid was a country was a regime of unfree speech, not unchecked speech, unfree speech. The newspapers in South Africa, who I think many of them were anti-apartheid or dismissive, would often show up on your doorstep with half the article with the number of articles blanked out blank, black, covered up all the text covered up. It was a way for the newspaper to show you what government censors had censored. So in South Africa, the government would not allow speech that objected to apartheid. And to censor it, indeed, if you spoke up against apartheid, if you demonstrated against apartheid, you went to jail. And I know this because I mean, I know this for a lot of reasons. You can read about it. You can study it. But as it happens, it's a little personal. My parents were both born in South Africa, like Elon Musk. My parents hated apartheid, as Elon Musk, I think, did. And they left as soon as they could. They emigrated out of South Africa to Israel. My uncle, my mother's brother, was actually an anti-apartheid activist whose speech was silenced, silenced, and who actually sat in jail. The government actually jailed for his opinion, for his speech. And he was ultimately kicked out of South Africa. He was deported out of South Africa, even though he was a citizen born in South Africa because of his anti-apartheid activism and was forced out of the country. He ultimately lived in the UK and ultimately settled in Portugal. But so what are you talking about? I mean, listen to this. Again, Elon Musk grew up in South Africa that saw the dangers of unchecked speech. No, it saw the dangers of government censorship. It continues. That's a colon. I'll read it again. Elon Musk grew up in the South Africa that saw the dangers of unchecked speech, colon. A apartheid government propaganda fueled violence against black people. Yeah, but that was government propaganda. That was government having a misinformation council board and censoring objections to their falses. Indeed, governments are responsible for most propaganda. Governments are responsible for much of the misinformation. It's unbelievable. More speech, certainly the government allowing more speech and then just a culture that allows for more speech and a culture that allows for people to objecting to what's conventional to objecting to the consensus, objecting to what the government argues is a culture that is likely to get rid of apartheid. Indeed, if you're anti-apartheid, what you want is more speech. So here they're turning it all upside down. Elon Musk grew up in South Africa that saw the dangers of unchecked speech. No, it saw the dangers of censorship. A apartheid government propaganda fueled violence against black people. True. But that's government propaganda. You want your government propaganda? Musk didn't experience that. He grew up in a bubble of white privilege. First of all, what is that even? You know, do we really know that? From my understanding, reading a little bit about other people written about Musk, he didn't like apartheid as a teenager. He objected to it. It's one of the reasons. In 2017, he left South Africa and never looked back, never went back, you know, went to Canada. He probably did grow up in a bubble, because I know all of my relatives grew up in bubbles, fearful of the people that were being oppressed. But from what I've read, Musk actually was friendly, had friends who were black and had a very negative opinion about apartheid. So what are you trying to imply here? And look, he was he was born into the system. He didn't choose it as soon as he could choose. As soon as he could impact change in his own life, he left. What more do you want? So the New York Times is trying to smear him based on something he had no control over, associate him somehow with apartheid. It's truly hard. It's hard to understand what these people are thinking. No, it isn't actually. It's easy to see that they are not thinking. They're just not thinking. There's no thought involved here. They'll say anything, they'll do anything to smear him. Why? Because he has a vision for a private company that's different than their own. They used to defend Twitter's right to can't, you know, not to carry Trump or whatever based on the idea that they were a private company. Funny how the left was protecting property rights. But now that Elon Musk is buying it and maybe they won't block the people that the left wants them to block. Now it doesn't matter that they were a private company. They should do what the New York Times tells them to do. It's stunning, right? Stunning. Yep, New York Times, by the way, is doing very well financially. Nine point one million subscribers at the New York Times. So whatever they're doing, it's working for their business. So and they're a private company. 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