to fight another day because it's at least some free speech or to go hard and say no Turkey you don't get Twitter. There will be no Twitter for Turkey. Sorry you don't get any. Now how do you know what the right decision was? You don't really know the right decision do you? You know what happened but you don't know if he'd made the other decision a better thing would have happened. It's completely unknowable. So the first complaint they have about Musk is that he tried to weigh the benefit of free speech versus all the other variables and realized that there was a no-win situation. Right, there was no good way. So it was either going to be no Twitter in Turkey which is bad or to agree to censor which is bad. You just had two bad choices. So if you picked one of the two bad choices does that mean he sucks or was it just an impossible situation and he picked one? I don't know. Was it a good choice or a bad choice? I don't know. Does it indicate that Elon Musk loves dictators? No. Does it indicate that you know Twitter is always going to go along with the dictator? No. Because one of the factors is that it was right before the election, right? Because it could have gone a different way had there not been an election that was really critical and on point at that moment. So it's easy to be the critic but if you're going to be the critic you have to say what you would have done that was the right answer. What's the right answer? You're saying he did the wrong thing. Now you tell us what's the right answer. Because it wasn't a right answer. But yet they can throw that on the laundry list and oh yeah well that one doesn't bother me so much. Let's see what else is on the list. Maybe when I see it all I'll really be worried.

All right, next on the list is that Musk said that George Soros hates humanity and that gets very close to the line of anti-Semitic. It wasn't anti-Semitic but it reminded them of things that are. So now you've got two terrible things that Musk did. He had a no-win situation in which he didn't win. That's the first strike against him. He didn't win in a no-win situation with Turkey. And then secondly he made a comment about an individual which reminded other people of anti-Semitism. It wasn't anti-Semitism because it was about one person whose actions seemed to suggest that interpretation according to Musk, not according to me. But all right, so you've got two of the sketchiest things in the world but there's two of them. Now if they could only come up with a third thing then they'd have a proper little list then wouldn't they?

See what else. Oh so then the third thing is that when he reinstated thousands of Twitter accounts they were often racist and anti-Semitic people as researchers have documented. So his problem was that he valued free speech over how offended you would be by it which is how free speech works. And he said explicitly it's only free speech like in a real way if you allow the speech that you don't like. So they managed to say supporting free speech which necessarily supports speech you don't like and then he acted upon it by putting them back on Twitter. So now they've got these three terrible things. He didn't win in a no-win situation in Turkey. He said something about one individual which reminded somebody else of something else that was anti-Semitic. And he reinstated people under the First Amendment pr