Free speech absolutists, am I right?
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#632So much for Elons "Free Speech"! This may come as a shock to him: Free Speech means to allow people to say something that he disagree with. Something that may hurt his interests or even his ego. Free speech is not to allow people to say things he agree with or don't care about.
“Free speech” disappeared almost immediately after the Twitter purchase. Along with all of Musks supporters changing from “we need free speech”, to “Musk owns the platform, he can do what he wants.” Pre-Musk Twitter was more about free speech, except it was trying to fight bots, hate speech and disinformation.
The biggest problem with the term "Free Speech" is that almost everyone makes exceptions for things that they believe should be restricted/censored.
Therefore the only standard should be the legality of that speech in a particular country. In the US those things you put as exemptions are permitted. So pre-musk Twitter wasn't about free-speech as those exemptions are restrictions on speech that are greater than US law restricts (which isn't much tbh).
Generally you have a trade off on any of these platforms between what you can say without breaking terms of service and the popularity of that platform. Generally less popular platforms are less restrictive.
If you don't want your speech restricted, you should probably just go back to hosting your blog and using a mailing list.
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#633Somehow I don’t believe this, it is too much out of character, even if it fits so nicely with how we want to see Elon. Did anyone here actually confirm this? I never used Twitter nor X or id check myself.
> it is too much out of character I’m curious what you’re basing this on if you’ve never used X?
How could I understand Elon's character from using X? I get it from his biography, and other things I read about him.
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#634Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It is your opinion to colour one side or the other 'hateful', 'racist' You should look up the word, antisemite . > Take this same opinion and apply... I understand why you'd want to change the subject, but no. I also understand why you ignored the rest of my comment. I see now that you're a promoter of exactly the insidious "hate as an equal right" mantra that turned Twitter into what it is today. While it's infect…
Definition of antisemite: a person who is prejudiced against Jewish people Prejudice is completely different to hate. They are often associated but are not the same. > I see now that you're a promoter of exactly the insidious "hate as an equal right" mantra that turned Twitter into what it is today. You seem very quick to label and categorise people into boxes about what they think about. Be careful, that is a very d…
>Definition of antisemite
Your abridged definition is your cartoonish admission that you're aware that you're wrong.
With just a little more cleverness you could have easily avoided that reveal and actually challenged me.
>You seem very quick to label...
Ah yes, the old, "labeling the labelers is the real problem here" routine.
I'm seeing now that you're just kind of a lazy troll—boring and unimaginative. This is where I exit. Feel free to carry on with yourself!
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#635Do people in the US still use X? If yes, why? What keeps you on the platform (so the owner is a tiny step closer to destroying your own country)?
> Do people in the US still use X? If yes, why? Are you seriously asking that question? If so, I suggest looking at the nov election results. The votes for Trump were for this (his relationship to Elon and intention of “having him make the government efficient” were well known in advance of the election).
quite frankly, your argument is dishonest, whether intentionally or not. I do not trust anyone repeating online, and no one else should. Especially since its repeated verbatim every time it comes up, its clear that this is "the play" and propaganda.
> I suggest looking at the nov election results.
What should we be looking at exactly? How the curiously 100% flipped swing states voted? I agree, theres much to look at there.
> The votes for Trump were for this (his relationship to Elon and intention of “having him make the government efficient” were well known in advance of the election
That is an outright lie.
No one knew Musk would be running amok dismantling government institutions like a rabid dog, while side stepping all government processes. Project 2025 had something like a 6% approval rating. What is being "implemented" right now is Project 2025.
The US is in a constitutional crisis, and the saving money is a farce to permanently disable the US as a functioning body.
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#636Do people in the US still use X? If yes, why? What keeps you on the platform (so the owner is a tiny step closer to destroying your own country)?
It’s propped up by media companies, who have become addicted to the quick quote that a tweet provides. Any topic distilled down into 140 characters is always going to have multiple ways to interpret it, thus feeding the click bait pipeline with sufficient reactionary data.
It is a monument in the race to the bottom of “digestible/summarized content”.
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#637Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pro-Palestinian usage of the slur coined by David Duke on Twitter is a clue there.
I had to look up what word you could possibly be talking about. You mean "Zionist"? How is that a slur? It's what the movement calls itself. That's like saying "Nazi" is a slur against Adolf Hitler.
Zio is the slur. Obviously David Duke did not coin the term Zionist.
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#638Do people in the US still use X? If yes, why? What keeps you on the platform (so the owner is a tiny step closer to destroying your own country)?
i voted for that, i voted for the destruction of the federal government because it's bankrupting us by stealing our money
You think the US is bankrupting you by stealing your money? Specifically: USAID, FAA, Government Watchdog agencies, and whatever other group that has been dismantled by now? Those are the high priority agencies stealing our hard earned money?
Not the guys who all of a sudden have a 100 billion dollars since 2010?
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#640Earlier quoted context omitted.
You seem to have completely missed what I was saying. Journalists get suspended from social media platforms for doxing all the time. These events are not newsworthy, and wikipedia articles are not written about them. The problem isn't the content of this article, it is that the article exists at all. It only exists because wikipedia editors apply different notability thresholds to one side of politics than the other.
Wow, post after post of rhetorical, bad faith bullshit. Amazing.
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