Bono

What would your advice to me? I would give you zero advice. I don't know if I'm qualified to give advice. But I would say that America goes through these great periods of overcorrection. It goes these great periods of like you saw it during COVID, during the lockdowns and the authoritarianism.

And we fell into a kind of state of tyranny where there was just massive oppression of free speech, including government sponsored oppression. They were contacting different social media platforms and banning legitimate doctors and scholars because they had different opinions about how things should be handled. There was wide scale censorship, a push for a changing of the First Amendment.

And we fell into a kind of state of tyranny where there was just massive oppression of free speech, including government sponsored oppression. They were contacting different social media platforms and banning legitimate doctors and scholars because they had different opinions about how things should be handled. There was wide scale censorship, a push for a changing of the First Amendment.

And we fell into a kind of state of tyranny where there was just massive oppression of free speech, including government sponsored oppression. They were contacting different social media platforms and banning legitimate doctors and scholars because they had different opinions about how things should be handled. There was wide scale censorship, a push for a changing of the First Amendment.

The First Amendment needs to be overhauled. The First Amendment doesn't apply to hate speech or to disinformation. There was all these like new ways of talking about censorship in this country and condoning censorship. And it's very dangerous because it's all about money. It had nothing to do with protecting people.

The First Amendment needs to be overhauled. The First Amendment doesn't apply to hate speech or to disinformation. There was all these like new ways of talking about censorship in this country and condoning censorship. And it's very dangerous because it's all about money. It had nothing to do with protecting people.

The First Amendment needs to be overhauled. The First Amendment doesn't apply to hate speech or to disinformation. There was all these like new ways of talking about censorship in this country and condoning censorship. And it's very dangerous because it's all about money. It had nothing to do with protecting people.

I think it's worse than that. I think it's programmed like an EDM concert. I think it's not even an orchestra. I worry, and this has been substantiated by data, that more than 50% of the interactions going on on the Internet and social media are not real. There was a former FBI analyst that said it might be as much as 80%. It's bots, as you said.

I think it's worse than that. I think it's programmed like an EDM concert. I think it's not even an orchestra. I worry, and this has been substantiated by data, that more than 50% of the interactions going on on the Internet and social media are not real. There was a former FBI analyst that said it might be as much as 80%. It's bots, as you said.

I think it's worse than that. I think it's programmed like an EDM concert. I think it's not even an orchestra. I worry, and this has been substantiated by data, that more than 50% of the interactions going on on the Internet and social media are not real. There was a former FBI analyst that said it might be as much as 80%. It's bots, as you said.

And this is a problem with the concept of free speech. I'm completely wholly in favor of free speech, just like the ADL was back in the day when they let the Ku Klux Klan march around. Like, look, you've got to – the way to combat bad speech is with better speech.

And this is a problem with the concept of free speech. I'm completely wholly in favor of free speech, just like the ADL was back in the day when they let the Ku Klux Klan march around. Like, look, you've got to – the way to combat bad speech is with better speech.

And this is a problem with the concept of free speech. I'm completely wholly in favor of free speech, just like the ADL was back in the day when they let the Ku Klux Klan march around. Like, look, you've got to – the way to combat bad speech is with better speech.

The way to find out whose arguments are correct is to let them debate in the marketplace of free ideas and expose these people for what they are and have the people – that are on the sidelines that are letting these great thinkers have these discussions, say, okay, this guy makes sense. This guy is clearly a grifter. This guy has ulterior motives.

The way to find out whose arguments are correct is to let them debate in the marketplace of free ideas and expose these people for what they are and have the people – that are on the sidelines that are letting these great thinkers have these discussions, say, okay, this guy makes sense. This guy is clearly a grifter. This guy has ulterior motives.

The way to find out whose arguments are correct is to let them debate in the marketplace of free ideas and expose these people for what they are and have the people – that are on the sidelines that are letting these great thinkers have these discussions, say, okay, this guy makes sense. This guy is clearly a grifter. This guy has ulterior motives.

This guy has an ideology that's very toxic, and he's trying to push this on the whole world for control, for power, for money, to benefit the special interest groups that he's a part of, or whatever it is. That the problem with... Free speech is you're also going to get a lot of ugliness because there's a lot of ugliness in the world. You're going to get a lot of people that say horrible things.

This guy has an ideology that's very toxic, and he's trying to push this on the whole world for control, for power, for money, to benefit the special interest groups that he's a part of, or whatever it is. That the problem with... Free speech is you're also going to get a lot of ugliness because there's a lot of ugliness in the world. You're going to get a lot of people that say horrible things.

This guy has an ideology that's very toxic, and he's trying to push this on the whole world for control, for power, for money, to benefit the special interest groups that he's a part of, or whatever it is. That the problem with... Free speech is you're also going to get a lot of ugliness because there's a lot of ugliness in the world. You're going to get a lot of people that say horrible things.

And I think the only way we sort through all that is you have to let them. And then you have to let people rise up that oppose those horrible ideas. And those people become heroes. Those become the Martin Luther King juniors.