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r in terms of the censorship. They're actually preparing a full report that will be on Twitter. So and this is fun too. Twitter will be the publisher. So that this is something you would normally expect to be published in some other place and Twitter would just point to it but because it's Elon he's doing it the smart way. It will be published on Twitter so you have to go to Twitter and you have t…

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o be a little bit crazy and a little bit genius at the same time. And I think that the divorce broke him and it just pushed him into the wrong side. That's what it looks like because I don't see anything here that looks like a good strategy. Do you? If I did I'd call it out like I'd love to tell you oh you're all missing the clever play. You know if you knew as much as I do about persuasion you'd see how cleverly he's playing you all. But I don't see anything. I see somebody who's working through some problems. That's all. That's what I say.

Now the next part is hard. You know the way he's treated the anti-Semitism issue it's very ugly and like I can't be in favor of that. I can't have any empathy for that at all. But at the same time I have empathy for him because to me I see a victim and maybe he was a victim that people ganged up on him you know. Maybe his trainer who had some kind of weird background and threatened him. We know maybe he was part of it. I don't know. But he looks like somebody who was destroyed by people who had an agenda of some sort. Now you could argue that he wasn't strong enough to avoid that destruction. That's always another way to look at it. But I have empathy for Ye at the same time I severely disavow his opinions which I feel like is the way a president should have approached it. I think a president should say I have great empathy. It looks like he's going through a tough time but you know still I have to disavow what he said completely.

All right. I wonder if everything's, I can't get off of this topic but I wonder if everything's going to be different after we find out what Twitter actually did. Like how deep does that go? For example just as an example here are the things we might find out. What if we find out what organized groups were organizing trolls? Suppose if you found out who the troll masters are like wouldn't you love to know that? What if we found out how much foreign influence there's been at Twitter? Foreign. How much do you want to know that? Like a lot? Yeah. How about our own intel and FBI? How much influence have they had? Has anybody who is not a Twitter employee ever had direct access to cancel people? Would you like to know that? Wouldn't you like to know if there's any app that allowed any law enforcement or anybody to change a Twitter experience where Twitter didn't even have to approve it? It was just giving somebody else a button to push. Would you like to know? Because I'll bet somebody did. I'll bet somebody outside of Twitter had a button. It just feels like that's the type of thing we'd find out, right? I have no evidence of that. It just feels like it.

What else are we going to find out? Will we find out that our user accounts are completely artificial and that you know will I find out that of my almost eight hundred thousand followers what if I find out that half of them are bots for Republicans who thought they liked boosting my signal? Totally possible. Totally possible, right? Could be. Yeah I mean I have no idea how deep this hole is but wow am I interested.

Now apparently Apple has threatened Twitter because of this censorship stuff. Apple is threatened to take the Twitter app out of the app store which would pretty much kill Twitter as a viable business. Do you think that Apple would execute that? Do you think that Apple would drop the nuclear option on Twitter? Because if they do the reason would be that they say there are too many, too much hate speech, right? So it would be a hate speech thing.

Now isn't this hate speech thing really subjective meaning you could say yes that's too much hate speech or that's not too much hate speech? Isn't that kind of just an opinion how much is too much and how much is free speech? Because all free speech has some hate baked into it, yeah. So my first impression was this that it would be such a suicide play that Apple would never do it because if Apple did it they would lose I don't know twenty percent of the customers overnight something like that. I mean I would I'm totally in the Apple universe but I'd have to think really seriously about dumping them forever if they killed Twitter because to me that would be attack on the Republic. Does it feel like that to you? And it wouldn't feel exactly like an attack

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on Twitter users to me. That would feel like a direct attack on the Republic. That's how I take it. To me that wouldn't look like free market. That wouldn't look like any kind of free market thing. That would look like just the worst thing. And so my first impression was Apple would never take a risk that big because they don't take risks like that, right? That's just not an Apple thing. But here…

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