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the fairest thing I can do is say what my feeling is and what my opinion is and then let Elon Musk run his company because I don't feel I'm smart enough to judge this one. I feel this is just the weight of the public needs to win. So here's how I would come down on this. If most of the people on Twitter like this idea because of the ones getting blocked as opposed to what else, I would reluctantl…
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All right. You tell me. This is the only thing we know so far. You tell me. Is there something going on or is she being treated exactly like everybody else? What do you think? What's your best speculation with limited information? Speculate with limited information. Thank you, Erica. The correct answer is no clue. Yeah, the amount that you as an observer can tell about this situation is nothing. There's nothing. I will add one thing to it, which when I got my first check for having advertisements on X, it looked to me like way smaller than other accounts my size because they had been publishing their numbers. And I think Ian Miles Cheong had or somebody had published, and I looked at the size of his account and engagement and I looked at mine and I thought they should be kind of similar. But I got like this little peanut and he got a pretty sizable check. And so the first month I said to myself the same as Laura Loomer. I said something's going on here. I wasn't even sure that I was registered in the system. I thought maybe I was confusing it with some other payment or something. It was so small. So the second payment was totally in the range of what I would have expected. Right? So the second one was fine.
Now my guess is that Laura Loomer will have the same experience, that the second check will be somewhere in the range of what you'd expect. The first one might have been a partial month, right? Might have been a partial month or there could be a bug about the first month or something like that. But I don't think that Elon Musk is suppressing her. Now here's the argument for yes. Don't you think that Twitter deals work with advertisers and do you think the advertisers do not ever say don't pair us with some kinds of content? Do you think that's ever happened? Because that's what the YouTube model is. The YouTube model is it's not really YouTube that's banning people. It's mostly the advertisers say we don't want to be associated with that kind of content.
So what if Laura Loomer is right? But by the way, I'm not debunking her claim. If it sounded like that, then I went too far. I'm not debunking your claim. I'm saying we literally have no idea. It's just a mystery on the first month. The mystery will go away if the second month is normal. It would just mean there's something about the first month. But would you, if you were an advertiser, would you say why don't you pair me with Laura Loomer type material? Yeah. So she might actually be on some kind of a blacklist and we wouldn't know about it. But I think that's a fair question for Elon Musk, isn't it? I haven't seen anybody asking the question, but the question would be are you satisfying advertisers in any way with a blacklist? I would think they would have to. It seems like it's almost required. I don't know how you could not do it honestly. If they could convi
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nce... if there was a way to convince the advertisers that it doesn't matter, that'd be awesome. Here's how I would do it if I were Musk. I would say this: no, we're a free speech platform and that means you would be on, you know, in the feeds of people you loved and people you hated. But people on Twitter understand that. So that would be the best argument. The people on Twitter understand that…
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