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.

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UqWBcuFx6NV4r a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Intellectually dishonest analogy but I’m sure you already know this.