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X owner Elon Musk took a strong stand against censorship during an interview with a German political candidate. Here’s what she told him about the dystopian reality of free speech in the European Union (EU). 

Musk interviewed Alice Weidel, candidate for chancellor for the German party Alternative for Germany (AfD), during a Jan. 9 X Space and made the case that “free speech is the bedrock of democracy.” Weidel explained to Musk that the interview was being closely observed by E.U. goons seeking to enforce a draconian censorship law: “Now while we talk, 150 bureaucrats of the European Union are watching us, our conversation, to enforce this ridiculous Digital Services Act (DSA), that is nothing else than a censorship on free speech.”

And Weidel isn’t being paranoid here. Politico reported on Thursday that bureaucrats would be listening in. Politico also discussed their investigative powers and mentioned that the EU is already investigating X for refusing to censor free speech in July 2024. 

During his discussion with Weidel, Musk defended free speech, telling Weidel: “Without freedom of speech, people are obviously not able to say what they want to say and then they cannot make an informed vote. So if people are simply fed propaganda and have no access to what’s really going on, then they can’t make an informed vote and you don’t have a real democracy, so that’s why I say free speech is the bedrock of democracy.”

Musk followed with another jab at censorship: “It’s actually quite easy to tell who the bad guys are: It’s like who wants to shut down freedom of speech? They are the bad guys. It’s very clear.” 

In recent months, Weidel’s AfD and Musk’s X have both been aggressively targeted by voices in government and media in recent months. German legislators have made efforts to ban the AfD, while voices within Germany and elsewhere in the E.U. have called for Musk to be punished for supporting the political party. On Dec. 22, Musk endorsed AfD in a post on X before writing an op-ed for the German newspaper Die Welt, in which he voiced his support for the party. 

In response to this endorsement, former E.U. commissioner Thierry Breton called for the DSA to be enforced against Musk. The X owner was also targeted by the director of the Soros-funded Global Public Policy Institute, Thorsten Benner, who not only called for a regulatory crackdown on X, but also for a multi-pronged approach to “go after” Musk. Benner renewed his call to regulate X in a BBC conversation following the Weidel interview. 

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