Elon Breaks the Internet! By Richard Miller (London)

Elon Musk is being reported as “breaking the internet.” Now that sounds exciting, like dropping eggs, or like traditional Greek folk doing a dance and breaking plates, I think, at weddings. Beautiful, but, I digress. So, good old Elon Musk in an interview with BBC reporter James Clayton, said that the guy was outrightly lying. Clayton had said that since Elon had taken over Twitter, there was more “hateful content.” When pressed to give examples, Clayton could not. Of course, it is all a matter of definitions, because our idea of freedom, is the Left’s idea of hatred; it is their buzz word.

And Elon said in the conclusion of the interview that he had a healthy scepticism about journalists. “You’re sort of saying, who knows best? The average citizen or someone who is a journalist? And I think in a lot of cases, the average citizen knows more than the journalist,” Elon said.”

It is a pity Elon is in the transhumanist camp.

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“You just lied!” pressed Elon Musk to BBC reporter James Clayton. “You said you experienced more hateful content [on Twitter] and then couldn’t name a single example. That’s absurd!”

The above remarks were in response to James Clayton’s declarations that he has experienced more “hateful content” on Twitter since Elon took over the platform. But when Elon probed him to give an example, he stumbled, fumbled, and couldn’t come up with one instance.

This moment marks just one of many where BBC’s Clayton looked completely unprepared to deal with Elon Musk.

BBC’s James Clayton was hoping to be the one asking all the questions in this spontaneously-planned interview. But it turns out Elon’s curiosity sparked him to ask a few questions of his own.

One of those questions was about the BBC’s COVID misinformation policy.

“Does the BBC hold itself at all responsible for misinformation regarding masking and side effects of vaccinations — and not reporting on that at all? And what about the fact that the BBC was put under pressure by the British government to change the editorial policy? Are you aware of that?” asked Elon Musk.

“This is not an interview about the BBC,” responded Mr. Clayton. “Let’s talk about something else!”

Clayton asked Musk about his decision to reinstate former President Trump.

Elon stated that he didn’t vote for Donald Trump, but he believes people of all political persuasions should be allowed on the platform. “Free speech is meaningless unless you allow people you don’t like to say things you don’t like. Otherwise, it’s irrelevant. At the point in which you lose free speech, it doesn’t come back.”

The next topic was “misinformation.”

“Do you believe you prioritize freedom of speech over misinformation and hate speech,” asked James Clayton.

Mr. Clayton was caught off-guard as Elon turned the tables on him.

“Who is the arbiter of that [misinformation]? Is it the BBC?” asked Musk.

James Clayton stammered, “Are you literally asking me?”

“Yes,” replied Elon. “Who is to say that one person’s misinformation is another person’s information?”

Paid blue checkmarks were another topic. BBC’s Clayton asked if that feature would dilute the pool of sources people could trust.

Elon expressed that he often trusts the average citizens over professional journalists —because when a journalist doesn’t know an industry or topic too well and only has a few facts to play with, their article doesn’t exactly “hit the bullseye.”

“You’re sort of saying, who knows best? The average citizen or someone who is a journalist? And I think in a lot of cases, the average citizen knows more than the journalist,” he opined.”