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Twitter before Musk banned Babylon Bee, a Christian version of The Onion, for this: "The Babylon Bee, was suspended by Twitter, after it had mockingly awarded
by martindbp 4y ago
Twitter before Musk banned Babylon Bee, a Christian version of The Onion, for this:
"The Babylon Bee, was suspended by Twitter, after it had mockingly awarded transgender government official Rachel Levine the title 'Man of the Year.'"
This is the type of speech that Elon believes should be allowed, and I agree. He has repeatedly said freedom of speech absolutism is still subject to laws, and inciting violence past that line, but clearly not transgender satire.
- dmix 4y agoGoing back to 2005 style internet free speech (or even 2010) sounds perfectly reasonable. No one complained about banning a dude posting swastikas unironically in 2005. The Overton Window has radically changed since then and not for the better.
- sangnoir 4y ago> This is the type of speech that Elon believes should be allowed, and I agree. And yet when the same satire it directed at Musk, he blows a gasket. Jeph Jacques[1] changed his profile picture and name to Musk's and tweeted (paraphrasing) "I like drinking my own piss first thing in the morning" and got permabanned for it. It was clearly satire to me, and broke no laws AFAICT. 1. Author of Questionable Content webcomic
- Karunamon 4y agoRules against impersonation had been on the platform since 2018. IMO if you can't do satire without making your self indistinguishable from the person you are satirizing, you suck at it.
- threatofrain 4y agoIMO repeatedly accusing a rescue worker of pedophilia is just as likely to provoke violence as Kanye posting a Nazi symbol on Twitter.