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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Musk is a proponent of near-absolute free speech

Anything goes, so long as it doesn't hurt his feelings personally

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

As long as you don't use the term cisgender :)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would claim actual free speech absolutists don't exist.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're probably since those that preach about free speech are politically driven, hence biased to protect their stance. Rest of us have realized speech isn't free of consequence and the last third just doesn't give a fuck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Defamation, fraud, hate speech, harassment, collusion, confidentiality, incitement...

No reasonable person actually thinks that free speech is an unlimited right. Plenty of kinds of speech are viewed as too harmful to be legal. The right is well understood to be about political speech only, and even then the edge cases can be hard to pin.

Anyone who claims to be an absolutist on free speech is insane or absolutely full of shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

you forgot the most important one: being negative against musk/spez/freeSpeechAdmin123/insert any other free speech absolutist authority figure here

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Didn’t he also give in to block a few accounts of political opponents in Turkey instead of risking being banned there completely, because he said it would be better to lose a few accounts instead of losing the whole country?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

People are also not allowed to say the word "cisgender” over there

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Woah dude, cool it with the c-bombs.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's okay, I gave them a c-word pass.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Some of my friends are c-words, so I can use it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Freedom, by Musk... a cologne that's actually mace with directions to the local old folks home and instructions on how to use InShot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Or when an authoritarian government asks him to block literally anything