Jeremy Tedesco

Trump won in 2016 and the UK people voted to leave

the EU in 2016.

And the elites did not like that.

They couldn't understand it.

It was inexplicable to them.

And so the Digital Services Act was a response to that.

And the response was, we don't want you to be able to think for yourselves and definitely not speak your ideas because we're going to lose control.

And we don't want to lose that control.

We don't want to be questioned.

We don't want to lose our power.

And you did that to us twice in 2016 through the election of Donald Trump and the UK leaving the EU.

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.