Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary smacked the censor czars at Twitter for their abysmal performance, defended Elon Musk’s bid for owning the platform and stood up for free speech — all in under five minutes.
O’Leary slammed Big Tech censorship just days after Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced his $43 billion bid to buy out Twitter. O’Leary vigorously defended free speech on CNBC’s April 18 edition of Squawk Box. “[W]hen you start to try and figure out who should have a voice and who shouldn’t, you’re stepping on the basic principles of free speech in America. And that really doesn’t sit well with a majority of the population.”
He also argued that Twitter’s obsessive censorship agenda cost the company its bottom line. Twitter has become a “miserable investment” for shareholders, according to O’Leary. The reason the investing environment was so terrible? Too much censorship. “The reason this thing has underperformed is they’ve tried to do this curation by canceling voices and losing millions of followers. This is an abysmal performance.”
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