Free Speech

“A lot of what I do and what I invest in is For that purpose, which is I want to support free speech. Yeah, it's my number one cause.”

“There is no perfect answer to disinformation, but the single greatest antibody to bad information Is good information. To have an overabundance of information so that the truth clashes with the falsehood, and in the long run, human beings judge for themselves.”

“I've always viewed comedy to be the most important test of free speech. And it really does define what we're being given permission to do.”

“The two things that, you know, TikTok that your generation believes that a bunch of people don't is that socialism is better than capitalism and the rights of the listener are better than free speech. And those, that is what's on TikTok, right? Those are the t…”

“Just free speech is not enough. the idea that we're gonna resolve this by just having more speech, I think is naive.”

“It seems like the left in the U.S., their values are based more on power, so it turned out free speech was useful for them for their power and their messages in the 19 sixties and seventies, and that was their platform, and then by the time it was no longer us…”

“Free speech is not a right on college campus in and of itself. It's a right to the extent that it drives academic excellence from in the academic concept.”

“The criminal code already bans incitements to violence and incitement to genocide, other utterances that are designed to instruct a violent or hostile attack against a particular group of people. That is in the criminal code already, and that has not harmed fr…”

“We don't, as a company have, we don't see ourselves as having to uphold any kind of right of free speech. And frankly, from a business perspective, having someone pay me 30 dollars a month to create very questionable conspiracy content, it's just not good busi…”

“I think to Britt's point, you can't have full free speech and anonymity. I actually think that's too dangerous, right? Like for the reason you're talking about, especially as we get into the bot world and AI or whatever. So like, the thing I believe in is that…”

“I mean, my personal view on this is the same reason why I think we should ban TikTok, right? Which is, like, free speech is meant to, like, it's not, like, a right for the sake of being a right, right? It's a right to make our country stronger, right? And to m…”

“I think it's incredibly legal and consistent with free speech to prevent a hostile foreign adversary from controlling what is increasingly a media and news platform.”

“You know, I do think that the free speech angle of this sort of cancel culture debate Has got more merit than some people give it. You know, we can't be in society where if you don't like what someone says, you try and withdraw their right to say it.”

“I think, look, I think we got, I think we basically got extremely lucky that Elon Musk happened to care about free speech and decided to do something about it and actually had the means to do something about it. He's just about the only billionaire who has tha…”

“Universities are not platforms for free speech. All of society is a platform for free speech. We have that right. Universities are platforms for learning, and so if there's a topic that needs to be discussed that's difficult, if there's a person who's presenti…”

“Well, it's a private corporation that controls how billions of people talk to each other. If they decide that billions of people can't say that, that is ipse fact to a free speech question. Doesn't matter that they're not the government or not.”

“Podcasting, and even, I probably say newsletters, it's one of the last ways to get direct free speech from someone's mind out into the world, and people will say things in a podcast that they couldn't Print or they can do something in a newsletter they couldn'…”