Episode #413 from 3:07:22
X and free speech
My kid's school, the epithet of the school, or the saying is go forth unafraid. I think it's a good way to live. And again, words can't harm me. The power of X, And we do owe Elon enormous thanks for this is now, so for example, the Washington Post wrote a story about me a couple days ago, and I didn't think the story was a fair story. So within a few hours of the story being written, I'm able to put out a response to the story and send it to 1,200,000 people. And it gets read and reread. I haven't checked, but probably 5 million people saw my response. Now, those are the people on X, It's not everyone in the world. There's a disconnection between the X world and the offline world. But reputation in my business is basically all you have. And as they say, you can take a lifetime to build a reputation and take five minutes to have a disappear. And the media plays a very important role and they can destroy people. At least we now have some ability to fight back. We have a platform, we can surface our views. The typical old days, they write an incredibly damning article and you point out factual errors and then two months later they bury a little correction on page, whatever. By then the person was fired where their life was destroyed or the reputation's damaged. It was with Warren Buffett talking about media, and it's a business he really loves. He says, "You know what, Bill?" He said, "A thief with a dagger. The only person who cause you more harm than a thief with a dagger is a journalist with a pen." And those were very powerful words.
Why this moment matters
My kid's school, the epithet of the school, or the saying is go forth unafraid. I think it's a good way to live. And again, words can't harm me. The power of X, And we do owe Elon enormous thanks for this is now, so for example, the Washington Post wrote a story about me a couple days ago, and I didn't think the story was a fair story. So within a few hours of the story being written, I'm able to put out a response to the story and send it to 1,200,000 people. And it gets read and reread. I haven't checked, but probably 5 million people saw my response. Now, those are the people on X, It's not everyone in the world. There's a disconnection between the X world and the offline world. But reputation in my business is basically all you have. And as they say, you can take a lifetime to build a reputation and take five minutes to have a disappear. And the media plays a very important role and they can destroy people. At least we now have some ability to fight back. We have a platform, we can surface our views. The typical old days, they write an incredibly damning article and you point out factual errors and then two months later they bury a little correction on page, whatever. By then the person was fired where their life was destroyed or the reputation's damaged. It was with Warren Buffett talking about media, and it's a business he really loves. He says, "You know what, Bill?" He said, "A thief with a dagger. The only person who cause you more harm than a thief with a dagger is a journalist with a pen." And those were very powerful words.