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On Monday’s edition of Reliable Sources Daily on CNN+, host and media janitor Brian Stelter praised the Twitter board for putting a “poison pill” in place to temporarily slow down billionaire Elon Musk’s bid to buy the company in a hostile takeover. Despite other market actions, he and New York Times business reporter Lauren Hirsch suggested investors loved the move. They also suggested that if Musk implemented policies more respectful of free speech, it would turn Twitter into a “gutter.”
At one point in their conversation, Stelter was fascinated by Hirsch’s recent piece where she questioned: “What is an ‘uncensored’ Twitter worth?” Elaborating, she said the folks at Twitter support free speech crackdowns because they “would argue … improvements to moderation helped user engagement helped revenue. So, from just a pure financial perspective, moderation has been good for business.”
Stelter vehemently agreed and began shouting about how “people don’t play in the gutter! Most people don’t want to send their kids to play in the gutter!”
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