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David, we did discuss this.
You could bring up Biden for all of 2025, but when 2026 came around, you had to put... I'm recounting what was happening for several years, and President Trump changed that direction.
Absolutely.
And so if it weren't for that, I think we'd still be on a censorship track.
I mean, if it was up to Zuckerberg, he would have continued to do it under Kamala.
He did it with no problem under Biden.
He's a weathervane.
His entire position is based on what makes the system grow.
Look, I think when it comes to these tech companies... I don't have any personal feelings on it.
I think when it comes to the tech companies, there's, let's say, a range of courage.
Yes.
And so I'd say Elon is an outlier in terms of willing to stand up to the government in terms of protecting free speech.
And there's others who sort of just kind of more blow with the wind and do whatever the government is sort of suggesting.
Or demanding.
Demanding.
But it was wrong.
It was wrong for the government to be doing that, particularly in the US, where you have a First Amendment.
But let me... And to catch people up, we literally had our FBI...
putting pressure on our own tech companies to say, we don't like the tone of these tweets, the tone of these posts we think are damaging, but we would have never gotten to the bottom of COVID.
And if it actually, we should all be taking mysterious, you know, experimental vaccines.