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Elon Musk is a state actor. The biggest one in fact.
No he is not.
... In what way is he not? He is de facto if not de jure more or less in charge of the US government.
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Do they believe free in free speech, or will I also be banned/blocked from saying things there?
>>Do they believe free in free speech No they don't, blue-sky belongs to the former twitter owner, aka THE BUBBLE ;) BTW: He was not welcomed at FOSDEM because he is billionaire, when a movement eats itself ;) https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares...
He was not welcomed by a small minority at FOSDEM*
Minorities with loud voices always wins because people don't want to deal with bullshit
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> allowing hate, racist, homophobic, and transphobic language to run rampant Are the people with these views not also entitled to free speech and equal rights to express themselves the same as everybody else?
Free speech doesn't allow you to say anything at all you know? Calling for the eradication of people with certain sexual preferences or skin color for example.
Free speech doesnt have asterisks. If certain people say things that are undesireable to other certain people, they have to power to ignore them.
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> allowing hate, racist, homophobic, and transphobic language to run rampant Are the people with these views not also entitled to free speech and equal rights to express themselves the same as everybody else?
Free speech doesn't allow you to say anything at all you know? Calling for the eradication of people with certain sexual preferences or skin color for example.
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You can't criticize Elon on X...
Elon literally said:
"Criticizing me all day long is totally fine"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2022_Twitter_suspensi...
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#246Ironically, three years ago, Musk encouraged the use of Signal and tweeted: " Use Signal ", https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1347165127036977153 Edit: In my opinion, Elon Musk initially endorsed Signal because of its strong encryption, security, and commitment to privacy. Now, he's blocking it for those very same reasons—what a blatant double standard! On a related note, one of the key advantages of the modern internet—…
Don't the DOGE dweebs use Signal?
Though I think they were forced to stop.
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#247The logical explanation to me is that most of the Signal contacts shared tend to be for drugs or CSAM trading, so they went for the nuclear approach to make moderation easier.
Is that true? I’ve never used signal.
Telegram is overwhelmingly the app of choice for drug dealers with Whatsapp coming second, at least on a direct to customer level.
No clue about CSAM but I'd really doubt it considering it requires a phone number.
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> Remember how he exposed government meddling with twitter and everyone called it nothing burger. Please provide actual evidence of said government meddling with Twitter.
I can't speak to the evidence or lack thereof, but this is what they were referring to:
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> anti-Semites have a pretty loud and public voice in the "Western" world So do Jews. So are we seeing full free speech in action? Or is whats right decided by which side people agree with?
>So are we seeing full free speech in action? Even free speech has its limits...for example calling for the extermination of a race. >Or is whats right decided by which side people agree with? Correct, most of the time it is, and that is exactly why laws (esp. international ones) exist and Justitia is/should be blind.
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#250Remember the Arab Spring and how Twitter was hailed as a tool for the masses to fight against their oppressors? And remember how Elon bought Twitter, loudly proclaiming he was doing so to defend free speech? I'm mildly curious to see how X tries to justify this, but I suspect they've reached the stage where they don't even need to pretend to pay lip service to their notional values.
There is so much censorship going on on Twitter through the use of dark patterns, that it's embarrassing to claim it to be something like a fortress of free speech.
Let alone the fact that you need to have a subscription in order to obtain a "somewhat fair" exposure. It's ridiculous.