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I wonder why the richest man in the world says he's about free speech. He lives in a country that considers money to be speech. He has the most speech of anyone, but that's not it surely.
He says he's about free speech because he agreed with the kinds of speech that get excluded from civil discussion. He considered people getting shunned for racist opinions to be censorship, while he considers terminating the accounts of anyone who disagrees with him to be his prerogative and perfectly fair.
Elon Musk has never actually stood for "Free Speech," only for the speech he likes. He SAYS he likes free speech purely because it has better optics for him and worse optics for his opposition than "Let me say racist things."
Free (my) speech.
Freeze peach.
How many people is a Brazilian?
I had a Brazilian professor. He was super smart, so maybe 3?
Yeah but how physically strong was he, that could make the person to Brazilian ratio change
A brazilion, obviously
no, say "cade e o br??", appended with multiple brazilian flag emojis
It's the sort of thing I might do if I were so rich that I could burn tens of billions of dollars to run a major corporation just for fun. I mean, saying "get lost" to the government of a country of over 200 million people must be quite a rush.
🎶 He's the worst CEO you've ever heard 🎶
🎶 He's the Angry Racist Twitter Nerd 🎶
I am currently helping to develop a platform that aims to catch Brazilians evading the ban, hopefully it will help enforcing the law.
Sure you are.
How would that help anyone? Maybe spend your time promoting alternatives instead.
I like Mastodon, idk why people are hesitating to join up.
I am currently helping to develop a platform that aims to catch
Ooh child abusers?! Terrorists?!
Brazilians using a website
Oh
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Know you’re probably joking
a lot of brazillians are going to bluesky
You should pack up your stuff and get the fuck out of here
Narc
In this case it's ok
Good, fuck censorship. If you don't stick up for those you disagree with one day they'll be censoring you.
Twitter gladly executes ban requests from right wing governments
Yeah, if twitter was run by a principled individual who actually was a free speech absolutist, I would be siding twitter. If twitter was anything other then an advertising platform, I would be siding with twitter. If twitter wasn't censoring news orgs that criticized Musk, I would be siding with twitter.
My country has hate speech laws and 99.9% of us aren't concerned or yelling "censorship!", because 99.9% of us aren't running around saying hateful shit that would get us arrested for hate speech. Only a racist is worried about being cancelled for racism, only a bigot is concerned about hate speech laws.
I don't think that works as a blanket statement, for example Australia has a law allowing takedowns for hate speech but it was recently used to censor a journalist who shared a video of an Isreal leader saying from the "river to the sea".
But in general, yes, censor hate and uphold journalistic integrity and freedom of the press in equal measures.
This comes from a Elon-drone like you, that ignores Musk banning people who make a joke about him or post where his plane took off to...
No, this is free speech absolutism. You can't say anything you want on any forum and expect zero consequences. That's ridiculous.
I mean, yes in theory, but it's also a social contract. We shouldn't allow people who advocate for violence or harm against other people.
There should be no censorship in theory. In theory, communism works. In theory.
First they came for the racists and nazis and I said nothing
What a limited view of the world.
At this point you can basically just search for the word "disagree" and it's 99% intellectual dishonesty.
