Here and I’ll read you the quote it says Twitter leaves EU voluntary code of practice against disinformation but obligations remain you can run but you can’t hide and that’s Theory Breton uh the European Union’s internal Market commissioner you can run but you can’t hide Elon Musk
Right you can run from the tyrants of Europe you know the sensors are coming for you but you cannot hide he says Beyond voluntary commitments fighting disinformation which oftentimes means actually real information by the way under DSA as of August 25th our teams will be ready for enforcement
And he said and if an EU official told you’re you’re active that block that the block is quote waiting for this and it was purely a matter of time so Europe is coming for Elon Musk the nihilists are after him the night they believe in nothing they believe in nothing musk and
They’re coming for him anyways you know we’ll see what Elon Musk does I know I’m still kind of on the fence with him to be honest I get the senses more like a Libertarian I think he’s doing many good things in all honesty I think he was doing many good things at the
Same time you know I’m still in the fence and waiting to see how he does uh last I saw he did just land in China on his private jet so I don’t know he’s talking with them about and of course you know he has made but of course he has maintained his stance
That he believes very deeply in free speech you know he seems to really stand by his commitment Free Speech when people have accused him of censoring on Twitter you know because a lot of content had a lot of takedown requests have been honored by Twitter when
Governments in Europe and in the US or wherever uh when they have asked for content to be taken down Twitter has actually gone along with most of those requests and I saw you know some tweets where people were talking you know calling out musk saying hey why are you doing this
And he says you know show me the show me a way where I could not do it show me a way where I could get away with not doing it suggesting that he believes that if he does not go along with these censorship systems they’re just going to de-platform him
This was some of the controversy he ran into in Turkey for example where you know you just hadrogen I’m probably saying his name wrong win the election there the you know the Turkish prime minister and Elon Musk was criticized for censoring on behalf of the Turkish government and Elon Musk is like well
It’s better to be there at all and be kind of censored than to not be there at all um I’m I’m concerned with that thinking only because we’ve seen well for many reasons but because we’ve seen that previously that was the original excuse that was used by a lot of these
Platforms to go along with censorship policies including with China the thinking is well it’s better to be there a little bit than not be there at all and if you have to abide by government censorship so be it my my Counterpoint to that would be is it better to have half truths that
Only show one side of a story that misleads the public or is it better to not be there at all and allow people at least some other forms of debate it’s only because people go along with those requests to remove accurate information many cases that this type of censorship
Is even allowed to take place if people took a stronger stance based on a strong principle and openly called out such you know actions to try to censor people and remove counterpoints and counter arguments which are often true in the long run and many well not all of them
But many have been shown to be true later I’m I’ve been I’m a living example of this how many times have I said things that go against the grain and I was attacked you know viciously and I turned out to be right Spygate covet Origins vaccine safety I could go on January 6th
In my opinion it’s better to keep your principles it’s better to allow no debate on such platforms than to stifle half the debate because when you stifle half the debate all you are is a propaganda Network all you are is a source for government propaganda and for
Lies and it’s better to have no debate than to only allow for lies if you’re stifling truth and allowing lies to stand you’re merely a network that perpetuates lies and that is not beneficial to anybody that is much less beneficial than frankly having nothing and if a platform cannot meet the
Standard of allowing for open debate and allowing both sides of arguments it should not stand my personal stance because again if you censor like that you’re not allowing for the debate that is necessary for truth to be upheld and I think it’s more damaging to society to have something like that my personal
Stance that said good on Elon Musk for standing up against Europe and the censorship establishment there it’s also the problem we have just generally speaking with globalism where the you know the lowest common denominator becomes the dictator of the world the lowest common denominator can say hey your content in America violates the
Rights in like North Korea or like communist you know France or whatever and I should be nicer to the French they’re okay socialist French or germanistan you know one of these countries uh you know when it comes to these countries is should we just abide by the lowest
Common denominator and I don’t think that’s good I think that Americans need to uphold their principles when it comes to free speech and maintaining our own constitutional protections we should not bow to the lowest common denominator
