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Or would various European countries demand their own version?
Would there be a UK-specific version of X?
Is that where this would be headed?
Yeah, they should be good.
But those people then chose, their citizens chose to get a VPN.
Which costs $30 a year.
And then you can make your own decision.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, the great wall in China, we have the great firewall, which we're not trying to take down.
But could that happen?
Could the UK put up a great firewall and just say that,
You know, we're blocking out the outside world.
We call your bluff.
Right, so that is their right, but they don't want to do that because it would be too obvious what they're doing, and so therefore... They want to do the fines, they want to be underhanded.
They're trying to levy fines and just have it be more subtle, and we're pushing back saying, no, you can't do that.
Yeah, good luck doing that against Elon.
He's pretty principled, this guy, and I think he can pay for the speeding ticket.
I don't think it's going to be a problem.
And I would say President Trump, because I do think that President Trump's election definitely changed the direction of free speech in the United States, never mind the rest of the world.
Because I think under the Biden administration, we now know from cases like Biden v. Missouri, and then also what was released in the Twitter files, and then since then, even more disclosure that's come out, that the Biden administration was pressuring social networks to engage in censorship.