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>A lot of the "free speech" complaints about social media amount to complaints about social media platforms adding content warnings about [alleged] sensational
by glenstein 5y ago
>A lot of the "free speech" complaints about social media amount to complaints about social media platforms adding content warnings about [alleged] sensational lies or penalising their reputation anyway.
Exactly. And I would add, nobody who claims they are a "free speech absolutist" can stay consistent with that declaration after even one or two simple questions.
Does free speech absolutism mean unmoderated ISIS and Al-Qaeda posts are fine? Because we need to expose them to healthy debate for the benefit of societal progress? The answer typically is "well that's not speech, that's _____", and then it's a debate over why there's a special different word for the type of speech they want to prohibit.
- tomp 5y ago> Does free speech absolutism mean unmoderated ISIS and Al-Qaeda posts are fine? As a free speech absolutist, "yes". That's literally literally what the word "absolutism" in "free speech absolutism" means.
- notahacker 5y agoYou may do, but the self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist" trying to buy Twitter thinks that making certain claims and revealing certain information about his companies is not at all fine, hence all the litigation against critical former employees
- glenstein 5y agoThat is a laudable position of intellectual consistency! I agree that it is what the "absolutism" part means.
- rpmisms 5y ago> nobody who claims they are a "free speech absolutist" can stay consistent with that declaration after even one or two simple questions. Try me.