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Musk talked so much about "free speech" in recent times! This move is embarrassing. You can't just fire people for criticism.
by rg111 4y ago
Musk talked so much about "free speech" in recent times!
This move is embarrassing.
You can't just fire people for criticism.
- pyronik19 4y agoYou have freedom of speech just not freedom from consequences :)
- jeffbee 4y agoYeah but what Musk means by it is freedom from consequences.
- rg111 4y ago> freedom from consequences is such a meaningless, bloated phrase. Only consequence of speech should never be more severe than speech. "Freedom from consequences" is a weak argument used by supporters of autocrats, mobocracies, cancel-culturists, religious bigots wanting to punish blasphemous comments, and so on.
- les_diabolique 4y agoWhat's the different between freedom of speech with consequences and not having freedom of speech?
- MPSimmons 4y agoGreat, so getting kicked off of twitter is a consequence that people have had. This checks out.
- scollet 4y agoYes, yes you can.
- daenz 4y ago>You can't just fire people for criticism. Why do you believe that?
- rg111 4y agoIt looks bad. You can, legally. But after so many events of signalling support of free-speech, I think it is massively embarrassing. (I am neither a Musk fan nor a hater)
- daenz 4y agoI have never taken "free speech" to mean "in all places, all the time," so I don't see a conflict. The public sphere (irl and on the internet) is where people are advocating for free speech. A private company's internal email list does not qualify.
- loudmax 4y agoTwitter is also a private company. They are under no legal or moral obligation to disseminate all views.
- daenz 4y agoYou're right, they aren't! Which is why Musk wants to buy them and hold them to the standard of a de facto public townhall.
- oittaa 4y agoI don't understand why so many people have a hard time understanding this even though it has been repeated like a million times at this point. Are these people illiterate or using some kind of TSLAQ block list like in Twitter, because they're afraid of seeing any dissenting opinions?
- scollet 4y ago
- modeless 4y agoIf you don't understand that getting fired from your job is not what the right to free speech protects you from, you may have lived in a free country your whole life.
- scollet 4y agoOk. Elaborate. Why is this important?