Elon musk absolutely loves free speech,
unless it's dunking on him then he doesn't like it so much and will ban you.
>> [LAUGH] >> And that's what happened this
weekend when Ethan Klein from the H3 Podcast had a really clever,
basically tactic in response to Elon musk putting out his new
twitter policies in real time through his tweets.
So the new head of twitter clearly caught feelings as more and
more people have taken to mocking and impersonating him.
And on sunday he responded to that by tweeting this.
Going forward any twitter handles engaging in impersonation
without clearly specifying parody will be permanently suspended.
>> His feelings got hurt because of the free speech,
he didn't know we could hurt his feelings.
>> I just love the outrage over people being permanently banned
after they violated the terms of service multiple times.
Had multiple chances to not violate the terms of service,
incited violence on twitter.
Incited violence towards Sandy Hook families whose children were slaughtered,
the people who did all that and were eventually permanently banned.
There was so much outrage toward that, right?
But with Elon Musk, it's like if you mock me, permanent suspension, permanent.
>> No, he bought the things, so
that because people were getting banned too much.
And his first actions are banned, banned, banned,
you're banned, you're banned, you're banned, look under your seat, your banned,
[LAUGH] so I love the irony of this.
>> Okay, he continues to write any name change at all
will cause temporary loss of verified checkmark.
>> [LAUGH] He is in meltdown, man.
No, okay, by the way, but look to be fair,
there were people on twitter losing their minds about that,
who cares, who cares, who cares.
If you need the blue checkmark to feel good about yourself, go to therapy,
time to go therapy, please go to therapy, okay, let's continue.
So Ethan Klein kept his twitter handle but he changed his display name and
avatar to Elon and tweeted out some pretty ruthless bangers like the following.
So again remember this is Ethan Klein, he tweets, yes,
I could have ended world hunger instead of buying twitter,
but people don't understand the importance of having a free and open forum.
If somebody dies of starvation in Sudan, it won't affect the world,
but being able to say the N-word on twitter is a right we all deserve [LAUGH]
>> [LAUGH] This is some quality trolling.
>> It is so good.
All right, here's another one, even though Jeffrey Epstein committed horrible crimes,
I do still miss him on nights like this for his warmth and comradery,
rest in peace, old friend.
And that's a reference to the fact that Elon Musk was
pictured at a party with Ghislaine Maxwell.
He and his ex wife once visited Epstein's Manhattan mansion,
which led to all of this Epstein friendship mockery.
But recall that Elon said impersonation account must clearly specify
that they're a parody, which by the way Ethan Klein did do.
So let's take a look at the next graphic, let it be known,
it says parody account in the info before free speech dies,
comedy lives forever, #freeghislaine, right?
But it didn't matter because Elon musk's feelings got hurt so
bad that he permanently suspended the account.
By the way, that's the background parody account on the H3 Podcast twitter account.
>> Yeah. >> I'm so amused by all of this..
By the way, also Kathy Griffin who also parodied Elon Musk.
Her account was also permanently suspended and
her mother tweeted #freeKathy.
>> Because now everybody's Elon musk on twitter since there's no rules,
they're like, no rules, okay, great.
>> No, no, but there are rules, just rules that Elon Musk likes because his feelings
will get hurt if he doesn't implement those rules.
>> Yeah, so, the idea of the blue check is supposed to be, hey, you're verified,
meaning, hey, that's the real not someone impersonating them, right?
And so that makes sense, but when you start charging for it and then people go,
well I don't want to pay you for just to say yes, I'm actually right.
Then all of a sudden you've got chaos because everybody's pretending
to be Jake or Anna or Elon Musk, right?
And that's why charging for that is not perfectly rational because it will
obviously lead to this kind of chaos, right?
But as with everything he's done on twitter,
Elon Musk didn't think that through.
So the very first person that was constantly impersonating was him and
then once they did that he did the same exact thing as trump, he's like true, so
it's just gonna be about freedom.
Okay you can say anything you want, people were like,
okay Trump you're an ass, it's your bad.
Of course you can't criticize Trump, Devin Nunes is running the site you also can't
criticize Devin Nunes, also can't criticize Devin Nunes' mom or his cow.
In fact you can't criticize anybody we like, #freedom of speech.
>> But this is why the whole free speech debate is full of a bunch of liars and
posers.
Because the people who scream the loudest about wanting to protect free
speech tend to be the most sensitive.
And tend to want to censor speech immediately as soon as it negatively
affects them or hurts their feelings.
>> 100%. >> I've seen it play out so
many times by the way,
important clarification slash correction I have to make.
So Kathy Griffin tweeted that from her mother's twitter account,
her mother has since passed away by the way.
So I wanted to just make sure you guys do that
anyway- >> Okay,
you know what anyway I want to get it.
Okay, so look now I was making fun of Elon on twitter and then all of his fanboys
jump in there like yeah you guys were in favor of banning people before.
I'm like was I,
[LAUGH] I don't remember ever saying ban anyone from twitter, right?
But they just make blank assumptions, like so now you guys are getting bad,
see how you like it [LAUGH] free speech, but you know what?
There is actually some consistency to it because-
>> Is there?
>> No, there is, because you have to understand the right wing mind.
The right wing mind doesn't care about principles, doesn't have ideology,
doesn't care about logical reason.
What they care about is me win, me have power, you have no power,
me over you, [LAUGH] right?
So they're like okay when we're getting banned for saying the N-word and
saying violent things and hateful things.
We don't like that because that means we're out of power, but
you getting banned for saying perfectly normal things.
Like making fun of the guy who just bought twitter,
yeah now we get to exercise our power over you, that's all we wanted anyway.
We don't care about no stinking principles, no,
we just care about power and oppressing you right?
That's why they're all celebrating now, go on twitter, it's hilarious.
Go check out that tweet that I made, everyone was like yeah screw your freedom,
we told you, Elon will buy for freedom, God we hate freedom.
Yeah, I'm like all right dude, get counseling.
>> Thank God for social media though because it's really fueling democracy.
>> Yeah. >> Yeah.