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00:01:36.000Well, in one of the most dramatic business moves in modern American history, Elon Musk has now bought Twitter.
00:01:42.000There was a lot of talk last week that Elon Musk had offered $56.40 or $54.20 a share for Twitter stock, and that Twitter had figured out how to avoid this.
00:01:52.000That they had put a bunch of poison pills in the deal, that they had attempted to avoid Musk making some sort of hostile takeover bid.
00:01:58.000And now it appears that Twitter is going to sell itself to Elon Musk and the company will be taken private, which means it is no longer subject to governmental oversight in the same way as any publicly traded company.
00:02:08.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Twitter accepted Musk's bid to take over the company and go private in a deal that would give the world's richest person control over the social media network, where he is among its most influential users.
00:02:19.000The $44 billion deal marks the close of a dramatic courtship and a change of heart at Twitter, where many executives and board members initially opposed Musk's takeover approach.
00:02:26.000The deal has polarized Twitter employees, users, and regulators over the power tech giants wield in determining the parameters of discourse on the internet and how those companies enforce their rules.
00:02:36.000The two sides worked through the night to hash out a deal in which Musk plans to take Twitter private in a deal that values the company at $54.20 A share.
00:02:44.000The takeover would mark one of the biggest acquisitions of a tech company and will most likely affect the direction of social media.
00:02:49.000Musk will bring a commitment to a more hands-off approach on speech moderation to a company that has struggled to reconcile freewheeling conversations with content that appeals to advertisers.
00:02:57.000So this was always the lie, by the way, that Twitter used when it would stranglehold content.
00:03:01.000The idea was that if you allow people to speak freely, advertisers won't want to advertise anymore.
00:03:07.000Or, alternatively, if you allow people to speak freely, then advertisers can pick and choose where they wish to advertise, and maybe everybody will stop harassing advertisers about where they choose to advertise.
00:03:18.000The simple fact is that Twitter, as it was operated, was a leftist organ.
00:03:22.000And you can see that by the freakout that Musk's takeover is now engendering in the left.
00:03:26.000It is incredible to watch the left lose its absolute mind.
00:03:40.000Is that he is going to be in favor of more free speech on the platform.
00:03:43.000He tweeted, quote, free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy.
00:03:46.000Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.
00:03:50.000I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots and authenticating all humans.
00:04:34.000After all, Barack Obama had effectively manipulated Facebook in 2012 in genius ways to achieve his own re-election.
00:04:40.000Then, Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 and social media became the enemy to the left.
00:04:45.000Social media had to be brought to heel.
00:04:47.000Social media had been taken over by Russian spam bots and evil right-wingers.
00:04:51.000And therefore, we needed governmental oversight.
00:04:54.000You saw people like Kara Swisher constantly complaining at the New York Times that there just wasn't enough oversight.
00:04:59.000There just wasn't enough censorship at places like Twitter and YouTube and Facebook.
00:05:04.000You saw folks over at CNBC and MSNBC complaining routinely about how terrible it was that social media had allowed too many people to speak freely.
00:05:12.000You saw Dianne Feinstein, the senator from California, openly say to Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook that unless you crack down on content, we will find a way to punish you.
00:05:19.000The left has hated free speech on these platforms for years, specifically because that free speech allowed alternative viewpoints to get out there.
00:05:28.000And they successfully cudgeled places like Twitter and Facebook into doing their bidding, which is why at the end of the 2020 election, one month before the 2020 election, you saw the Hunter Biden story completely shut down on social media in coordinated fashion.
00:05:41.000It's why you saw all of these social media outlets begin to coordinate in who they would ban.
00:05:46.000They would wait until one day and then just Alex Jones was gone.
00:05:54.000I don't think he ought to be banned from social media.
00:05:56.000All of these outlets would simply, all at once, decide that they wanted these people gone and then they would, in collusive fashion, just ban them.
00:07:01.000You're complaining about the way that they are manipulating information or strangling off information or bottlenecking things or shadow banning people.
00:07:09.000You keep saying this sort of stuff, but it's all in your head.
00:08:32.000So all of this has raised the question as to what exactly Elon Musk is going to do once he takes over.
00:08:37.000By the way, Twitter shares did rise almost 6% on Monday to close at 51.70 each.
00:08:42.000The stock, according to the Wall Street Journal, has been an anemic performer in an era of huge returns for technology companies.
00:08:48.000Its shares jumped on their first day of trading in 2013 to close at $44.90, within a buck of where they were more than eight years later when Mr. Musk made his approach.
00:08:57.000Okay, so what exactly is Elon Musk committing to do?
00:09:01.000Well, as I've said, he hasn't actually committed to do much at all at this point other than more free speech and more transparency.
00:09:07.000There's some speculation as to what he is going to do.
00:09:10.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Musk wants to make substantial changes to Twitter.
00:09:14.000He reiterated his push to soften Twitter's stance on content moderation.
00:09:18.000He also promised new features like making algorithms open source.
00:09:21.000He indicated through regulatory filings, tweets, and interviews at a TED conference how he thinks the company ought to run and what he would do if he were to successfully acquire the social media site.
00:09:31.000He said he would soften its stance on content moderation.
00:09:34.000He is the self-described free speech absolutist.
00:09:36.000He said that instead of just taking down tweets or permanently banning users, timeouts are better.
00:09:41.000He says the platform should follow the laws of the countries in which it provides its services.
00:09:46.000He would create an edit feature for tweets, which presumably would allow you to see the original version of the tweet and then also the edited tweet.
00:09:53.000He wants to take the company private, because he says that there is no way to make the changes he wants without taking it private.
00:10:00.000He wants to give users who pay for Twitter Blue authentication checkmarks.
00:10:04.000So maybe the idea here is that in order to monetize the service, to get your account authenticated, you pay for that pleasure.
00:10:14.000He wants to rely less on advertising, He says Twitter should shift toward a business model that relies more on subscriptions, which again, makes some sense.
00:10:21.000He wants to stop spam and scam bots and allow for longer tweets as well.
00:10:25.000So maybe move toward a more sub-stacky type model so you can actually subscribe and then you can put out longer tweet threads.
00:10:32.000Here is what Elon Musk actually should do.
00:10:35.000There are four things in particular that Elon Musk really needs to do.
00:10:39.000Thing number one, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
00:10:42.000So you keep hearing from the left after January 6th, we need a Truth and Reconciliation, like South Africa, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to see who, who was a supporter of Donald Trump.
00:10:50.000Okay, what we need in order to restore trust in Twitter is we need to see all the old algorithmic changes and how exactly they impacted user experience.
00:10:59.000So we need to see who was shadow banned.
00:11:01.000We need to see which keywords allowed for people to be banned.
00:11:05.000We need to see the standards that were applied.
00:11:07.000We need the books open and we need to see the history of what exactly happened with Twitter.
00:11:12.000How was the decision made to get rid of the Hunter Biden story?
00:11:15.000How was the decision made to get rid of the Babylon Bee?
00:11:18.000How was the decision made to shadow ban particular accounts or quash the reach of particular accounts?
00:11:29.000We do need transparency in the algorithmic selection process.
00:11:32.000So, Musk is already committed to this.
00:11:34.000He says that he wants an open source algorithm, meaning that we can all see how content is being elevated or how content is being suppressed.
00:11:41.000That is a very good thing and that promise needs to be fulfilled because how are you going to trust the process if you can't actually see the process at work?
00:11:48.000If Musk does that, there'll be a major change because that does establish credibility.
00:11:52.000That does mean, you know, you don't like how it's being run, well, at least you can see how it's being run.
00:11:55.000Right now, the lack of transparency in Twitter is what has led to the massive distrust.
00:11:59.000Because your tweet goes down or you're suspended and you have no idea.
00:12:06.000You have to wait for like a week for some Twitter low-level employee doing scut work to get back to you.
00:12:14.000Making the algorithmic process more open and transparent at least allows us to know why these things are happening.
00:12:20.000Whether it's a glitch or whether it's a problem or whether it's an actual concerted attempt to shut down particular points of view.
00:12:26.000There need to be clear rules of the road.
00:12:27.000So Twitter has had very, very vague rules of the road.
00:12:29.000This is also true of Facebook and YouTube.
00:12:31.000Basically these rules of the road have allowed for bans on anything that Twitter doesn't like.
00:12:35.000And so you've seen this very inconsistent punishing of things like quote-unquote deadnaming, right?
00:12:41.000This is why the Babylon Bee got banned because the Babylon Bee made the tremendous mistake of saying that a man is not a woman and a woman is not a man.
00:12:47.000And so the Babylon Bee had its account suspended despite the fact that it is a satire site.
00:13:40.000Donald Trump found this out when he was president.
00:13:42.000You can name the policy top-down, but if everybody at the State Department hates your guts, they're just going to undermine your policy.
00:13:47.000You can name the policy top-down, but if everybody at the FBI decides to spend the next four years ginning up nonsense about Russian conspiracy theories, you can't get much done.
00:13:56.000When Musk takes over the company, he should do what every boss at every company does, and he should review the employee list and figure out who is good and who is bad.
00:14:03.000Not purely on the basis of politics, but on the basis of performance.
00:14:07.000So there are a lot of reasons why Elon Musk needs to fire, like, all of his employees at Twitter.
00:15:20.000So, for example, Nolan Weinstein is the global head of brand experiences and engagement at Twitter.
00:15:26.000Ariel Adkins is the curator of art, culture, and community at Twitter.
00:15:30.000Here's an exchange that they had just a few days ago, demonstrating that they're not going to go along with anything that Elon Musk has to say.
00:15:40.000Ariel Adkin says, is it too early for wine?
00:16:20.000He tweeted, point of view, you asked me why Elon Musk buying 9.2% of Twitter and getting a board seat is bad, and I'm explaining why this was clearly not his end goal, and things will certainly get worse and potentially be dangerous for democracy and global affairs.
00:16:32.000Well, um, I hope that you enjoy working somewhere else.
00:16:36.000Geraint Davies, real-time media infrastructure at Twitter, currently working on Twitter Spaces audio engineering.
00:16:42.000This person tweeted out, anyone in need of a software engineer with 40 years of experience?
00:17:03.000Said the problem with Elon Musk is that he has demonstrated a pattern of harmful behavior consistently that disproportionately impacts marginalized people.
00:17:09.000So maybe let's not give him any more power than he already stole.
00:17:13.000Um, well, again, the nice thing about Elon Musk being your boss is that he doesn't have to make you his employee.
00:17:20.000Haraldur Thorleifsson, something-something director at Twitter from San Francisco, California.
00:17:24.000Elon Musk just temporarily leased, made me a lot of money, and I still dislike him.
00:17:29.000Well, I hope that, um, I hope that money is enough to pad you through retirement.
00:17:33.000Kramit Dekasi, astrophysicist, lady, feminist, demisexual, genderqueer, trans woman.
00:17:40.000A lot of words to say, Biological Man.
00:17:43.000A prominent transphobe buying a large stake in Twitter is not at all funny.
00:18:00.000When you take over Twitter, Everybody over there who is deeply opposed to the kinds of changes that you are making, they're free to use Twitter.
00:18:48.000He said the plan is to bring Elon Musk in for a Q&A.
00:18:51.000As far as the possibility of President Trump coming back on Twitter, Parag Agarwal says once the deal closes, we don't know which direction the platform will go.
00:18:57.000It's a question we should address with Elon Musk.
00:18:59.000He said he wants Twitter to be a powerful force in the world, just like all of us.
00:19:02.000He said there's indeed uncertainty about what will happen after the deal closes.
00:19:05.000We'll hear directly from Elon, and I'll continue to spend time with him.
00:19:10.000And then he said, we don't have all the answers.
00:19:13.000Yeah, well, I mean, first of all, Parag Agarwal should go the way of the dodo bird.
00:19:18.000And Parag Agarwal recently suggested That his role was not to be bound by the First Amendment.
00:19:24.000So, anytime he wants to leave, the door can, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, Parag.
00:19:29.000So, all these people are freaking out.
00:19:31.000And again, Elon Musk's core mission here is pretty simple.
00:19:34.000Open up Twitter, make it more transparent, and the left is freaking out.
00:19:37.000And the people inside his company are the first who needs to go.
00:19:40.000Those are the people who need to go first.
00:19:43.000And if I were taking over a company, and I knew that the company was hostile to me, that the huge number of the people inside the company hated my guts, That's fine.
00:19:53.000There are plenty of jobs in America right now, thanks to that booming Biden economy.
00:19:56.000So go enjoy yourselves out there, gang.
00:19:59.000Meanwhile, the White House is freaking out.
00:20:01.000So, Jen Psaki suggested that Joe Biden was concerned, concerned about Section 230.
00:20:06.000Suddenly, He's very concerned about social media.
00:20:10.000Weird, weird how the minute that Elon Musk takes over Twitter, suddenly their concerns grow.
00:20:15.000Almost as though government has acted as a behind-the-scenes sponsor of social media on behalf of left-wing causes, bullying and cuddling social media into doing what they want social media to do.
00:20:26.000And Elon Musk might not do what they want Elon Musk to do, and now they are very mad.
00:20:32.000What I can tell you as a general matter, no matter who owns or runs Twitter, the president has long been concerned about the power of large social media platforms, the power they have over our everyday lives, has long argued that tech platforms must be held accountable for the harms they cause.
00:20:50.000Yeah, so they're going to ratchet up the pressure on Elon Musk.
00:20:52.000The good news for Elon Musk is that he doesn't care.
00:20:55.000Even though the government has been attempting to crack down on him, the use of the Securities and Exchange Commission to go after Elon Musk has been a frequent feature of the relationship between this administration and Musk's companies.
00:21:05.000Meanwhile, over on MSNBC, the fully delusional are in charge of the asylum over there.
00:21:11.000So Ari Melber, over at MSNBC, he dropped what I thought was the funniest comment.
00:21:15.000So yesterday, after it became clear that Musk was going to take over Twitter, he said, this is really scary stuff.
00:21:20.000You might secretly, like, ban one party's candidate or something.
00:21:24.000Does anyone have a mirror for Ari Melber?
00:21:35.000You don't even have to be transparent.
00:21:36.000You could secretly ban one party's candidate or all of its candidates, all of its nominees, or you could just secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us might not even find out about it till after the election.
00:21:52.000Elon Musk says this is all to help people because he is just a free speech Well, that'd be so scary.
00:22:04.000I mean, if they, if they like turned down the reach of particular politicians just before an election, that wouldn't, I mean, now that Elon Musk took over, that might, wait, that's exactly what happened right before the 2020 election.
00:22:14.000Kayleigh McEnany got knocked off of Twitter.
00:22:16.000The Trump team got knocked off of Twitter.
00:22:18.000The Hunter Biden story got completely knocked off of Twitter.
00:22:21.000So yeah, Ari, that's that's sort of the problem that Elon Musk is trying to solve.
00:22:27.000So the left continue to lose their minds.
00:22:30.000And the simple fact of the matter is one of the reasons is they do not understand tech properly.
00:22:34.000Well, one of the things that they don't like is crypto.
00:23:51.000And then, the minute Elon Musk comes in, he's like, you know, I'm gonna open up the books, and I'm gonna open up the algorithm, and I'm gonna let people talk.
00:24:18.000Jeff Bezos, he tweeted, interesting question, did the Chinese government just gain a bit of leverage over the town square?
00:24:25.000The idea being, of course, that because Tesla has parts that are made in China, then it must be that Elon Musk is going to allow Twitter to be run by the Chinese.
00:24:33.000Okay, Jeff, I have a couple of problems with this.
00:24:36.000First of all, according to Beckett Adams over at the Washington Examiner, the Washington Post published Agiprop produced by China Daily.
00:24:46.000The official propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist Party, as disguised as legit news.
00:24:50.000Between 2016 and 2020, the CCP paid the Washington Post $4.5 million.
00:24:56.000Bezos purchased the Washington Post in 2013.
00:24:59.000Honestly, Bezos complains a little too much here.
00:26:21.000To the ACLU, which is designed, as I say, to preserve civil liberties.
00:26:26.000They've offered a statement by Anthony Romero, quote, while Elon Musk is an ACLU card carrying member and one of our most significant supporters, there's a lot of danger having so much power in the hands of any one individual.
00:26:36.000Weird because I don't see you guys complaining about Mark Zuckerberg all that often.
00:26:40.000In today's world, a small handful of private tech companies, including Twitter, play a profound and unique role in enabling our right to express ourselves online.
00:26:47.000Social media is a critical tool used to share ideas, express opinions, and consume information that has real-life impact and discourse in the offline world.
00:26:54.000We should be worried about any powerful central actor, whether it's a government or a wealthy individual, even if it's an ACLU member, having so much control over the boundaries of our political speech.
00:27:03.000No, much better that you should have Parag Agrawal or Jack Dorsey or some other left-winger in control of this mechanism of distribution of information in the Nilan Mosque.
00:27:17.000The reason that they're worried, of course, is because he is going to broaden out the speech protections and the ACLU long ago stopped worrying about civil liberties and started worrying about equity.
00:27:28.000I mean, they put out a press release a few years ago where they basically said, we have to balance the needs of civil liberties with equity concerns, which means you're no longer the American Civil Liberties Union.
00:27:37.000You also have Human Rights Watch very concerned.
00:27:39.000Any human rights group who's putting out a statement about Elon Musk taking over Twitter because, oh my God, now people might be able to say things we don't like.
00:27:45.000It just demonstrates they never cared about human rights.
00:27:48.000You know, like the rights of humans, like the right to free speech.
00:27:50.000They don't care about any of that stuff.
00:27:52.000It makes no difference to them at all.
00:28:59.000My favorite is that literally yesterday, literally yesterday, the idea was that Ron DeSantis was brutally assaulting Disney's speech rights by getting rid of a special tax dispensation for Disney in the state of Florida.
00:29:13.000And now it is, we need the government to step in and stop Elon Musk from taking over Twitter and broadening free speech rights.
00:29:19.000Slow clap for all you hypocritical jackasses, really slow clap for you.
00:29:24.000But don't worry, I mean, the list goes on and on of the people on the left who have lost their ever-loving minds.
00:29:28.000So Elizabeth Warren, of course, she tweets, this deal is dangerous for our democracy.
00:29:33.000Billionaires like Elon Musk play by a different set of rules than everyone else, accumulating power for their own gain.
00:29:38.000We need a wealth tax and strong rules to hold big tech accountable.
00:29:41.000So again, she had no problem whatsoever with Disney injecting itself into politics in Florida.
00:29:48.000Disney is one of the wealthiest and most powerful companies on planet Earth.
00:30:09.000Elizabeth Warren talking about democracy is always a laugh because this lady hates democracy more than pretty much anybody else in the Senate.
00:30:17.000All she wants is regulatory agencies like her cherished Consumer Finance Protection Bureau to simply run how the economy works without any sort of democratic input.
00:31:09.000So instead, Charles Blow is only going to post his columns from the New York Times in order to maximize his own engagement and also make more money for Twitter.
00:31:17.000By the way, he used to trend like every single time in a sort of astroturfed campaign for his column.
00:31:47.000That feeling is reinforced by the fact that Elon Musk does not care, because he is worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
00:31:51.000Tim Weiss tweeted, we're going to have to deal with Nazis like our grandparents did, because Elon Musk is going to let them say whatever they want in the name of free speech.
00:32:05.000I mean, like, really, all these, all these guys who are announcing on Twitter, they're about to charge the beaches of Normandy by logging off Twitter.
00:32:15.000Meanwhile, Wajahat Ali, who's a garbage columnist for the New York Times, he tweeted, I love how you notice this only when it's rich people you don't like.
00:32:25.000When it's rich people you do like, then you're rooting for Disney.
00:32:27.000You're rooting for Abigail Disney, the heiress.
00:32:46.000From 2013 to 2018, Elon Musk paid an income tax rate of about 27%.
00:32:51.000The only way that you get to that number, 3.27%, is if you are going to tax his unrealized capital gains, which as we have discussed before, that's stupid.
00:33:00.000That's like I own a stock and I don't sell the stock and now you're going to tax me on the increase in the value of the stock.
00:33:04.000Are you going to give me a tax rebate when the stock goes down?
00:33:09.000You have to lie in order to make it seem like Elon Musk has unfairly benefited here.
00:33:14.000Elon Musk, honest to goodness, the man may be the greatest living American, Robert Reich says, when oligarchs talk about freedom, beware, says Robert Reich, who wants the government to run everything.
00:33:24.000By the way, oligarchy is where the government is run by the richest people in the land, meaning that government and industry are fused.
00:33:32.000What I'm seeing right now is the government is very opposed to Elon Musk.
00:33:35.000Robert Reich says, for Jeff Bezos, it means his freedom to set prices.
00:34:09.000It seems like you're confused because Jeff Bezos, again, owns a major media outlet and you have no problem.
00:34:13.000It's only Elon Musk you have a problem with.
00:34:16.000It's just amazing, amazing stuff there from a mentally underdeveloped former Secretary of the Treasury.
00:34:23.000Anand Jurathardis, who writes sometimes for CNN, he says, what Elon Musk is doing is what plutocrats have been doing, using money to buy power and power to protect their money, taking control of media to rig the discourse and hedge against resentment and branding themselves the solution to the very problem they are.
00:34:51.000And how exactly is him saying that he wants more dissent on the platform the big issue?
00:34:56.000Meanwhile, Ibram X. Kendi, grifter extraordinaire, he went on Twitter to quote Robert Reich saying, when billionaires like Musk justify their motives by using freedom, beware!
00:35:05.000They want to use their vast fortunes to do whatever they please, unconstrained by laws or regulations, shareholders, or even consumers.
00:35:12.000Well, I mean, isn't that the nature of freedom?
00:35:16.000I thought that freedom was being unconstrained by stupid laws and stupid regulations.
00:35:21.000And as far as shareholders, Elon Musk is currently paying Twitter shareholders like way above market value.
00:35:26.000Sean King, or as he's known online, Talcum X, because he's probably not actually black.
00:35:32.000Sean King tweeted, at its root, Elon Musk wanting to purchase Twitter is not about left versus right.
00:36:17.000The idea that Facebook and Twitter are propaganda machines for the right, that Facebook is a propaganda machine for the right.
00:36:23.000If by that you mean that we write headlines on Facebook that people click on, that is true.
00:36:28.000Also, it happens to be true that the left still represents the majority of clicks on Facebook, and that Facebook will routinely change its algorithm, disproportionately damaging the right.
00:37:41.000The director, who hasn't made a good movie in quite a while, he says, now that Elon Musk is buying Twitter, the question for all of us is, will he allow a criminal who used this platform to lie and spread this information to try to overthrow the U.S.
00:37:51.000government to return and continue his criminal activity?
00:37:57.000Well, I mean, you would just sound off on, I assume you're talking about Donald Trump, you would just sound off on the stuff that Donald Trump is saying, you know, like in regular life, like when somebody says something you disagree with and then you, and then you disagree with them.
00:38:09.000Like that's, that's a, that's a thing.
00:38:12.000So it's, um, it's pretty impressive to watch how the left is having an absolute, absolute freaking meltdown over this entire thing.
00:38:21.000insane to watch. But again, indicative of the fact that the left always knew that Twitter was their favorite outlet and now they are super mad that their favorite plaything might be taken away from them. So yes, a toast to Elon Musk with all of the leftist tears that fit in this mug. And again, they are consistently overflowing the Tumblr at this point.
00:38:39.000So in one second, we'll get to Hollywood's attacks on Elon Musk because they're about to begin.
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00:40:57.000So, according to Variety, Elon Musk's Crash Course is the newest production from FX and The New York Times, as part of their collaborative documentary series The New York Times Presents.
00:41:05.000These projects provide in-depth looks at prominent people and events, ranging from Janet Jackson to Juul to the 2020 Australian bushfire disasters.
00:41:12.000The most famous of these documentaries so far were popular documentaries about Britney Spears, framing Britney Spears and controlling Britney Spears.
00:41:18.000By the way, we did do a critique of those documentaries.
00:41:23.000The entire documentary is predicated on the notion that Britney Spears is completely mentally healthy and then goes after everybody who had her in a conservative ship and all of that.
00:41:31.000The expose will focus mainly on the negative aspects of Tesla, according to Variety.
00:41:36.000They say that the documentary will explore the future-minded company and the development of self-driving cars.
00:41:40.000The publication shared, quote, featuring the reporting from Cade Metz and Neil Boudette of the New York Times, the film will dive into how Tesla's autopilot program has resulted in several deaths.
00:41:48.000And Musk and the company have yet to publicly acknowledge and details Musk's efforts to kill government investigations into the incidents.
00:41:54.000Several former Tesla employees will be featured in the documentary, speaking out against Musk for the first time.
00:42:02.000Our media, they are completely unbiased.
00:42:04.000Except when they are unleashed against the world's richest man.
00:42:07.000Who makes, by the way, a product that I thought was good.
00:42:10.000I've been told by Joe Biden and company that electric cars are the future.
00:42:15.000I've been told that getting off of carbon-based emissions is the most important thing that you can do as a human today.
00:42:21.000And yet the number one electric car maker on planet Earth, Elon Musk and Tesla, they're the bad guys now.
00:42:27.000Why, it's almost as though your priorities have nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with your own political agenda.
00:42:34.000The Hollywood Reporter says the deep dive will also examine pressure Elon Musk has put on government officials to quash investigations.
00:42:39.000By the way, when it comes to, you know, deaths caused by so-called self-driving cars, typically what happens in those situations is human error.
00:42:46.000But put that aside, it's very obvious what Hollywood is attempting to do right here.
00:42:51.000Very clear what Hollywood is attempting to do.
00:42:53.000So they're now going to go after Elon Musk with all of their fury.
00:42:56.000By the way, Elon Musk is not a Republican.
00:43:17.000And again, so much of what is happening right now is just about the bluff of the left being called and them being really, really mad about that.
00:43:24.000Them saying they love free speech, but don't, whatever you do, no more free speech.
00:43:28.000Them saying, well, you know, go build your own Twitter, but don't, don't buy Twitter.
00:43:37.000And what is happening right here is that the pushback against corporate wokeism is taking place.
00:43:42.000And it's taking place on a couple of fronts.
00:43:44.000You have legislative attempts to curb it in places like Florida.
00:43:48.000You have market attempts to do so, places like the Daily Wire going into competition.
00:43:52.000And most importantly, people like Elon Musk actually buying giant companies and then attempting to open them up.
00:43:58.000And the left doesn't know what to do because this has been their most clever concerted attempt of the last 20 years in the United States.
00:44:06.000After the era of big government ended under Bill Clinton, the left then apparently decided, you know what?
00:44:11.000We can't do this directly through government, so what we will do is we will use government threats in order to essentially consolidate corporate America as a left-wing outlet.
00:44:21.000They will, they will live in this, in the gray area between public and private.
00:44:25.000They understand the right doesn't like encroachment on private sector spaces.
00:44:28.000And so what they will do is they will use unofficial and sometimes official pressure by the government in order to get those private sector actors to do what they want.
00:44:35.000And then if the right complains, they'll say, Hey, private actors.
00:44:55.000Like if you are worried about social media tearing apart the social fabric, you ought to be happy about the fact that now we actually get to see under the hood.
00:45:04.000And we actually get to see who is controlling what you see and what you hear.
00:45:07.000You want to get rid of conspiracy theories, transparency is the best disinfectant.
00:45:13.000But this is part of a broader pushback that has been a very, very long time in coming.
00:45:18.000And that pushback is happening on a lot of fronts.
00:45:19.000It's happening again against everything from Walt Disney Company to, for example, the S&P 500.
00:45:27.000The S&P 500 actually rates companies based on ESG, which stands for Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance, which is the S&P 500's way of basically dinging companies that don't reflect the left.
00:45:37.000Now places like Utah are pushing back against that.