Jeremy Tedesco

And so this whole effort out of the EU is to control what people can say to try to diminish the possibility of those kinds of things happening again.

And so it is a grab for total narrative control.

In the digital public square.

Well, he also bought it because the B, the Babylon B, was getting, you know, their account locked because they were pushing back on gender identity and transgenderism.

And so, yeah, I mean, Elan is in this to protect Trump.

Free speech and the things that motivated him to buy X, you know, I think the record shows were, you know, people who were willing to push back against some of the kind of progressive narratives out there that they want to be untouchable and unassailable.

But in a free society, you have to be able to criticize people in power and ideas that are wrong.

Well, the primary purpose of what the European Commission is doing here is to punish Elon for defending free speech.

The fine itself is based on a couple kind of narrow things under the DSA, the blue check they have on X, their willingness or at least lack of their willingness to provide access to their data to researchers.

And then there's one other component of it as well.

But, you know, the question about how do they come up with $140 million, it's completely arbitrary.

In fact, the findings of fault are largely arbitrary.

The amount of the fine is arbitrary.

And that's part of the problem with the Digital Services Act is these folks have extremely broad discretion to act as judge, jury, and executioner on whether you're guilty or not.

and what kind of fine you're going to pay, they can go all the way up to 6% of your global turnover, your global revenue.

So that's billions of dollars when you're talking about companies like X. And so we can expect these fines to escalate more and more over time.

And I think, you know, the EU likes it that way because they can just ratchet it however they want to punish the companies they want to punish.

You know, and I think in the end, they either want to break up X or...

put so much pain on X that they just pull out of the EU.

Well, I mean, first of all, I think it's really important to understand that the DSA scheme already is present.