| ▲ | adrr a day ago |
| Elon Musk the bastion of free speech who famously banned a twitter account that posted publicly available information. |
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| ▲ | littlestymaar a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| One? Elon banned thousands after he took over. He event went as far as personally canceling a Tesla customer's order for criticizing him. That's how petty he is. He has no interest in freedom of speech whatsoever, it's merely a talking point. |
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| ▲ | jimnotgym a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Me included, not that I'm very interesting. Every time I asked why I got a different reason from support. Edit: the last reason given was 'impersonation', which I thought was pretty random | |
| ▲ | ilc a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | I disagree. Freedom of Speech guarantees the right to speak. Not the right to have no repercussions. Elon has GREAT interest in Freedom of Speech, it enables him to have far more power than regulating the type of "speech" he showed in cancelling that customer's order. | | |
| ▲ | elAhmo a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Elon has interest in monetary gain and stirring conflicts around the world. It is sad that individuals like you are drunk on his coolaid. | |
| ▲ | Terretta a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > Freedom of Speech guarantees the right to speak. Not the right to have no repercussions. How is that different from, say, Freedom of Theft guaranteeing the right to steal, but not the right to have no repercussions? By these definitions, everyone has these “rights”? | |
| ▲ | bakies a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | he's controlling the speech, not freeing it | |
| ▲ | undeveloper a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | try posting "cisgender" on xhitter |
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| ▲ | Covzire a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Besides attempting to get him murdered by a crazy person seeing a chance to be famous, what possible reason does someone have to constantly broadcast the location of his transportation? What difference does knowing where it or he is make in the daily lives of anyone? What long term planning does the information give to people? |
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| ▲ | ben_w a day ago | parent [-] | | In the case of private plane info, to highlight hypocrisy regarding the eco-friendly identity he was at that time seemingly trying to curate. |
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| ▲ | s-y a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Musk is a contrarian. He, however, is not a government body (nor does he represent one, u can choose to include the dubious Doge efforts into the discussion but that will devolve into semantics that do not negate the point). As a private citizen with a platform for which he overpaid - he can do as he pleases within the confines of said platform. Musk, however, cannot enforce fines on other providers and request stuff from them. This is what the post is about. |
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| ▲ | testdelacc1 a day ago | parent [-] | | He can do whatever he wants on that platform. Equally, can elected officials decide to ban that private platform? | | |
| ▲ | s-y a day ago | parent [-] | | Again, apples and oranges. Private citizens vs government. Musk has no power given to him by someone, the government does, using that power in a way that might be considered abusive/authoritarian might yield (deserved) backlash. I'm not sure if I'm not getting something. It's a for-profit organization vs a government entity. It's not even remotely similar. |
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| ▲ | IncreasePosts a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| If someone says they believe in free speech, they have to let me spraypaint anything I want on their house. Otherwise they're a hypocrite. |
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| ▲ | ben_w a day ago | parent | next [-] | | If they publicly state that the house is a "town square" (he has said that of twitter), and they say that they are a "free speech absolutist" (he has said this of himself in the context of this house/town square/website), and state that "By 'free speech,' I simply mean that which matches the law.", then yes, if they don't let you spray-paint (tweet) whatever you want that's not strictly unlawful (like, ah, calling for civil disorder in the UK?), they are indeed a hypocrite. When the house is digital (twitter is), why even use spray paint as the analogy? | | |
| ▲ | bakies a day ago | parent [-] | | Can't throw rotten tomatoes at internet nazis in the nazi "town square" unfortunately. |
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| ▲ | pavel_lishin a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | When Musk bought twitter, he all-but-explicitly said "I have finally bought this house, which I will let anyone spray paint". | | |
| ▲ | yxhuvud a day ago | parent | next [-] | | And then promptly started to ban terms like "cis-gendered". | |
| ▲ | bakies a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | except for trans people and all the people he banned that disagree with him |
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| ▲ | adrr a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Italy can use the same argument. | |
| ▲ | UqWBcuFx6NV4r a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Intellectually dishonest analogy but I’m sure you already know this. |
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