On Saturday, the co-founder of Twitter apologized for his creation. Why? Because it allowed the election of Donald Trump. In an interview at the New York Times, Evan Williams explained, quote, I think the internet is broken, and it's a lot more obvious to a lot of people that it's broken. This is silliness, of course, the internet isn't broken any more than guns are broken just because bad people use them sometimes to do bad things. The internet is a tool that can do wonderful good or great evil. But Williams, like many of the left, believes that if a freedom can be exercised for great evil, it shouldn't be a freedom at all. Thus he continues, quote, I thought once everybody could speak freely and exchange information and ideas, the world is automatically going to be a better place. I was wrong about that. It's a very bad thing Twitter's role in electing Trump. If it's true that he wouldn't be president if it weren't for Twitter, then yeah, I'm sorry. This is the problem with leftist thought. There are many Americans who were deeply unhappy at Trump's election, but there were just as many Americans unhappy at President Obama's election. Just because many Americans don't agree with Ev Williams doesn't make a forum for argument and discussion bad. In fact, that's what should make the forum important. The shortcoming isn't Twitter, any more than the raucous debate that surrounds politics thanks to the First Amendment, is responsible for excesses performed by individual human beings. We simply do not have the right to control what other people think or say, even if that results in bad people sometimes winning victories. We have the right to argue them out of their position. The moment they move toward violence, we have the right to stop them. But Twitter didn't win the election for Trump. It just provided Trump a forum for espousing his views, which those on the left were unable to counter effectively. I don't believe all speeches created equal. Some is evil. Some is valueless. Some is great. But I also don't believe I have the right to be the sole determinant of where those lines are drawn. And I certainly don't think that tech

executives who vote universally Democrat have that right either on a moral level. When Williams compares himself to Prometheus and says he deserves to have eagles, quote, peck out his guts for eternity for giving the power of tweets to Donald Trump, he forgets he didn't give the power of free speech to Trump. God did. He just provided a forum that wasn't moderated by someone with which he agrees, which is a good thing. Perhaps you ought to help his democratic friends come up with better arguments than shut Trump up if he wants Trump to lose. But Williams has another solution. Restore the gatekeepers. He says the problem is that not everyone is going to be cool because humans are

humans. There's a lock on our office door in our homes at night. The internet was started without the

expectation that we'd have to do that online, except for the fact that there's no lock on our mouths,

nor should there be. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro show.

Oh, President Trump went to Saudi Arabia, and great fun was had by all.

He said some good things.

He said some things that were, eh, and we'll talk about all of it.

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Okay, so lots going on.

President Trump goes to Saudi Arabia.

So it's great for Trump that he is now doing this foreign tour because it's obviously

eating up all of the headlines.

That's something that he needs because when last we left our story last Thursday, all

of the talk was about Trump and Russia and firing of Comey and the deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein.

And there was a story that broke Friday that Trump had said to the Russians and the White House admitted that he said to the Russians that he was happy he got rid of Comey because it provided him relief on the Russia issue, which is not something that you probably be saying.

But the focus has now shifted because Trump is abroad.

So as a PR matter, it's really good that Trump is over in Saudi Arabia,

especially because there's no proof that anybody's done anything egregiously wrong as of yet.

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