Balaji Srinivasan

So no journalists, no communists,

make sure everything is on message and so on.

So they freaked out because whether they could articulate the way I just did, they understood that the ability to set the table, to portray themselves as the neutral middle ground that would arbit what is within and outside the boundaries of discourse.

If you could do that peer-to-peer, if you could set your own table, oh my God, your unfettered conversations would break the whole thing.

In a sentence, by the way, and this is a funny, this is a Rorschach test.

Ready?

You ready for a Rorschach test of a tweet?

This provoked a lot.

I thought it was a good tweet.

Ready?

Free speech is open borders for ideology.

That was a good tweet.

Okay, go ahead.

And I'll give you my thoughts.

Here, I'll put this one on screen.

That's right.

And so actually, that's my follow-up there.

So basically, one way of thinking about it is the left cared as much about speech controls as the right cares about border controls.

And so the reason they just fought so hard to control speech and the boundaries of acceptable discourse and not allow unfettered conversations is that controlling thoughts is sort of, I mean, it's pretty important, actually, what the Overton window is.

It's literally in its own way like open borders, but for ideology, right?