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The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

My Thoughts on Elon Musk’s Purchase of Twitter (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_391)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

thesaadtruthwithdrsaad

Society & Culture, Science, Education

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:00.0

Hi everybody this is God's had it's been a while since my last sad truth

0:07.3

episode I was away last week at several events in Hungary.

0:15.0

Budapest is a truly beautiful city.

0:18.0

Also went outside of Budapest, I did three speaking engagements there. So overall wonderful trip it was really

0:27.8

good to get away so the trip was a success professionally and on a personal level.

0:34.7

And then got back a few days ago, returned to the grind.

0:40.5

And so I thought today I would spend a few minutes weighing in on Elon Musk buying Twitter.

0:50.0

And so some people have been asking me, you know, what are my thoughts on the matter?

0:54.0

Actually, in one of the speaking events at, in Hungary, I was asked about this.

1:00.0

And so let me just briefly, you know briefly make a few points.

1:04.8

Look, in an ideal world, it would be nice if it weren't a single individual

1:10.0

who is the owner of a platform that is as important as Twitter, as Elon Musk has correctly

1:18.5

stated, it is now the de facto public square. freedom of speech as I explain in the parasitic mind is not something that is

1:29.7

only relevant in the context of whether the government grants you freedom of speech or

1:34.7

violates your freedom of speech. There is a whole ethos of freedom of speech.

1:39.2

So when companies are engaging in violations of freedom of speech, as I again explain in the

1:48.3

parasitic mind to simply say, well, but those are private companies, they could do what they want,

1:52.3

then you truly are

1:53.0

missing the point of what it means to have as I said a an ethos that either

1:59.4

supports or infringes on the pursuit of freedom of speech.

2:05.0

It's a cultural trait that is ingrained within the tapestry of a society,

2:11.0

whether you support freedom or not. So once you start saying, well, of a

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