Balaji Srinivasan

This is like one of their few tricks, right?

They have a few other tricks, but the fact that they've lost distribution means that we can actually just...

punch through the armor right we have you know infrared cameras right we have you know we have uh basically the ability to show a and b see the thing is like years ago like i might have the memory to remember an article from 2012 and 2019 and put them side by side but now we have the internet we have links i can go bing bing like this and just show the contrast right another example was within a few days of each other in like 2019 for example there were like uh

you know, free speech in Russia, try YouTube.

They seem to be for free speech, right?

This was June, 2019.

Okay.

And then they were also basically, um, they were also, if you put that one on screen, right.

Um, then like literally the previous day they were, uh, they were against it.

Right.

Does YouTube radicalize?

Right.

And, um,

YouTube, right?

So on the one hand, see, in Russia, they were for YouTube because it helped, in their view, destabilize Russia and or get their content in there and so on and so forth.

Within America, though, it was against their interest, so they were against YouTube.

And this showed, by the way, they messed up because they published this back-to-back so people's context window could capture the inverse Russell conjugation of them praising it in one story and critiquing it in another, right?

before they had better editors and smarter people, so it spaced this kind of inversion out over the years.

Yeah, yeah, but that's, so actually, in fact, you brought up my exact rebuttal.

Obviously, the op-ed page...