Balaji Srinivasan

It's like the ethics of a copper thief who steals a hundred bucks in copper, but like destroys the, you know, like a light or like a Tesla supercharger, okay?

Enormous damage to the commons by causing all of this conflict, but...

You know what?

It did benefit the New York Times company, where if you go back to NYT stock, that started going up around that time, right?

So go back to 2013, you can see it was in the doldrums, and then suddenly they start, you know, roaring upward, especially post-Trump.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, like this, right?

So all this kind of stuff is something that sent their stock roaring up.

I mean, it's only, I mean, in our...

Like, you know, from our standpoint, but my God, has it done more than $12 billion of damage?

Holy moly, right?

It's crazy how much damage it's done.

So what we need is something which actually is not simply critiquing, like you can go through a million examples of,

Like, it's funny to put it this way.

Like, yes, did they cause – did they help cause the Haldimor with Walter Durante?

Yes.

Did they help cause the Cuban Revolution with Herbert Matthews?

Unfortunately, yes.

Did they help cause the Vietnam War with David Halberstam's false reporting?

Unfortunately, yes.

And on and on.