Ready for some good news for a change?
The evil SOBs in Canada were smearing the heroic Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gill, and demanding she pay $300,000 on very short notice as punishment for her criticisms of Canadian Covid policy, particularly lockdowns.
She had managed to raise about half that sum by crowdfunding, but the deadline was fast approaching and it wasn't clear what she would do.
Then Elon Musk intervened and said: we will pay the rest of your expenses.
The official statement read (remember, Twitter has been changed to the silly name X):
X is proud to help defend Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gill against the government-supported efforts to cancel her speech.
Dr. Gill is a practicing physician in Canada, specializing in immunology and pediatrics. Because she spoke out publicly on Twitter (now X) in opposition to the Canadian and Ontario governments’ COVID lockdown efforts and vaccination mandates, she was harassed by the legacy media, censored by prior Twitter management, and subjected to investigations and disciplinary proceedings by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario that resulted in “cautions” being placed on her permanent public record. The legal battles that ensued cost Dr. Gill her life savings, and she now owes $300,000 in a court judgment due Monday.
When Elon Musk learned earlier this week about her crowdfunding campaign to pay the judgment, he pledged to help. X will now fund the rest of Dr. Gill’s campaign so that she can pay her $300,000 judgment and her legal bills. Free speech is the bedrock of democracy and a critical defense against totalitarianism in all forms. We must do whatever we can to protect it, and at X we will always fight to protect your right to speak freely.
This is very welcome news for the obvious reasons but also because the Canadian authorities surely assumed Gill would be unable to make this payment, and now she's in the clear.
None of this should have happened to her in the first place, but the attempt to destroy her utterly has failed, and that is a very good thing.
Let me note that after today my Online Business Masterclass, which is really darn good, just about triples from its current princely sum of $37, so give it one last gander and grab (we had a little glitch today but she's up and running again):