Jason Calacanis

Yes.

And, you know, subsequently we found out that other social networking properties have done this as well, but you were really the first to expose it.

So shadow banning, I think, was number two.

So first was banning.

Second was shadow banning.

I think third to me was government collusion, government interference.

So you release the Twitter files.

Nothing like that had ever been done before where you just, you actually let investigative reporters go through Twitter's emails.

Unfettered.

I was not looking over their shoulder at all.

And they found that there was extensive collusion between the FBI and the Twitter trust and safety group.

where it turns out the FBI had 80 agents submitting takedown requests, and they were very involved in the banning, the shadow banning, the censorship, which I don't think we ever had definitive evidence of that before.

That was pretty extraordinary.

I just want to make one final point on the free speech issue, and then we can move on.

I think people forget that the censorship wasn't just about COVID.

There was a growing number of categories of thought and opinion that were being outlawed.

The, quote, content moderation, which is another Orwellian euphemism for censorship, was being applied to categories like gender and even climate change.

The definition of hate speech was constantly growing.

And more and more people were being banned or shadow banned.

And there was more and more things that you couldn't say.