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Nicholas Begich: “It requires the world's richest person, Elon Musk, to buy…”

Featuring: Nicholas Begich, Republican | U.S. House Alaska At-large District

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Published | Video Starts at 43:18

And as a result, you've got an ESG Dei layer that is being subtly applied to content throughout YouTube, Facebook, Google. Right. Until recently, Twitter. Right. So. And quite frankly, It requires the world's richest person, Elon Musk, to buy Twitter now, X in order to restore a major platform for us to be able to speak to each other. And it shouldn't require that. It should not require the world's richest person to save free speech out of his own goodness, of his heart and pay $44 billion of his own money to buy the thing that. (43:18–43:33)

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Asserts that Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter was necessary to restore free speech on the platform.

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