My hatred towards legacy media outlets is like pre-owned Rolex watches value: you'd assume it would eventually peak and plateau but it never does.

It just keeps on going up.

A few days ago, a clueless - and I'm being polite here - BBC interviewer tried to corner Elon Musk with a series of specious questions designed to make him, or Twitter, look bad.

It backfired spectacularly.

The interview began with Musk admitting to something some people may have already guessed.

On the subject of Twitter, Musk said yes, he was interested, but yes, he then lost interest after finding out the platform was full of bots.

And then finally, yes, he had to buy at the price he'd originally proposed because he didn't want to face the legal backlash.

"[Think of Twitter] as a warehouse full of goods. You want to buy it and the seller tells you about 10 percent of the goods are broken," Musk said. "But then you inspect the goods and find out it's more than 10 percent."

"So you were no longer interested in buying Twitter then," the interviewer asked.

"Not that at price," Musk replied.

After that, things got interesting. The interviewer asked Musk whether he thought it was a good thing that Twitter was no longer being controlled (he meant censored, just sayin') as before.

Musk once again repeated his mantra: "free speech means allowing people you don't like to say things you don't agree with".

The interviewer hinted at a potential rise in *quote end quote* "hate speech" content on Twitter since Musk took over, at which point Musk asked him:

"Would you say there's more hate speech content on Twitter? Just anecdotally, tell me."

The interviewer said yes but when Musk asked him to name one example, and the interviewer couldn't, he was left speechless.

And it doesn't end there because a few seconds earlier, Musk asked the interviewer to "describe a hateful thing".

The interviewer said he thought hateful content is when you "solicit slightly sexist, slightly hateful responses."

And Musk said, "so you think that if something is 'slightly sexist' it should be banned'."

You can watch the full interview here.

The BBC, who clearly lost the plot, assumed we're all dumb and can't watch the full video, which is of course available everywhere else, and redacted the part where Musk makes the interview look like an idiot out of the video they shared.

If you can't be bothered to watch full hour-long interview, just go on YouTube and type "Elon Musk interview", you'll find several shorts (which unfortunately cannot be embedded here) with the juicy part.