Jason Calacanis

Do you remember this?

When you found that, I was like, my God, man, the barbarians are fully within the gates now.

The barbarians have smashed through the gates and are looting the merch.

Yes.

You are rummaging through their holy relics and defiling them.

Let's talk about the free speech aspect for a second, because I think that is the most important legacy of the Twitter acquisition.

And I think people have short memories and they forget how bad things were three years ago.

First of all, you had figures as diverse as President Trump, Jordan Peterson, Jay Bhattacharya, Andrew Tate.

They were all banned from Twitter.

And I remember when you opened up the Twitter jails and reinstated their accounts, kind of freed all the bad boys of free speech.

Yeah, stole the best deal.

Yes.

So you basically gave all the bad boys of free speech their accounts back.

But second, beyond just the bannings, there was the shadow bannings.

And Twitter had claimed for years that they were not shadow banning.

They had maintained for years that they were not engaged in this practice, including under oath.

And on the heels of you opening that up and exposing that,

Because, by the way, it wasn't just the fact they were doing it.

They created an elaborate set of tools to do this.

They had checkboxes in the app.