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Hello there, everyone. Judge Andrew Napolitano here for judging freedom today is friday april 15 2022
good friday it's about 10 after 11 in the morning on the east coast of the united states
and the richest man in the world i know sometimes the the the that that changes between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, but right now it's apparently Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, has caused an unbelievable stir, beating hearts in the center and on the right, terror and on the left, with his efforts to buy out Twitter for about $43 billion. The left is not crazy about this because it likes
Twitter in the management that it now has, suppressing the speech that it now hates.
The center and the right is ecstatic over something like this because of Mr. Musk's attitude
about American democracy and freedom in America. Take a listen for yourself. You decide.
It's important to the function
of democracy. It's important to the function of
the United States as a free country and on many other
countries and to help freedom in the world
more broadly than the U.S.?
That we have freedom of speech. Now look, freedom of speech comes from our humanity.
It doesn't come from the Constitution. The Constitution doesn't grant rights. It restrains the government from interfering with rights. So there is a big debate. Twitter suppresses freedom of speech,
but it is not the government. It's a private company, so it has the right to do that.
But wouldn't it be great if Twitter were owned by somebody who truly believed in freedom of speech,
who believed in the value of free speech, who believed that you can,
if you're on the biggest bulletin board in the world, publish somebody you don't like,
who says something you don't like. Here's Musk again. It won't be perfect, but I think we wanted
to really have, like I said, the perception and reality that speech is as free as reasonably possible.
And a good sign as to whether there is free speech is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like.
And if that is the case, then we have free speech. And it's damn annoying when someone you don't like says something you don't like.
That is a sign of a healthy, functioning,
free speech situation. A healthy, functioning democracy, free speech situation. So I applaud Elon Musk. And by the way, Mr. Musk, I'd be happy to work for you. I'd be happy to have the final
say as to what you're going to allow to be posted and what you're not going to
allow to be posted. Because in my world, every conceivable benefit of every conceivable doubt
is in favor of the speech. And if all things are equal, the speech gets published. This idea that
we will crush the speech of those we dislike because they use words we dislike is nonsense. The whole
premise of free speech in America is that the listener decides what to listen to. The government
and big tech doesn't make those decisions for them. I don't know where this is going to go.
As of Good Friday morning, he seemed to be taking a step back. Twitter is engaged in what's called a poison pill that would dilute the value of the shares of stock.
So he wouldn't own the percentage that he does own.
And his offer of $43 billion, a mind-boggling number, it's all cash, wouldn't work.
So there's no prediction where this is going to go. And I have nothing personally against the people that run Twitter. But I would like to see more views there. I would like to see people making the decision as to whose views get published have the same bias that I do. All speech is presumed appropriate to publish.
All innocuous speech is absolutely protected. And all speech is innocuous when there is time
for more speech to rebut it. That's not me. That's the Supreme Court of the United States. But I
bet that Elon Musk loves that. Judge Napolitano, happy Easter. Judging freedom.