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For a free service, there’s a lot of strong opinions here. While I’m no Elon fan, he’s entitled to do what he wants with what he owns. And he paid a bunch of m
by tiffanyh 4y ago
For a free service, there’s a lot of strong opinions here.
While I’m no Elon fan, he’s entitled to do what he wants with what he owns. And he paid a bunch of money to have that right.
- dEnigma 4y agoI think people mostly take issue with the hypocrisy of claiming to be a paragon of free speech while censoring all kinds of things because Musk personally dislikes them.
- tiffanyh 4y agoIsn’t the simple answer, just stop using Twitter if you feel so strongly about this n
- lapcat 4y agoThat's exactly what people are trying to do by switching to Mastodon! And Twitter seems to be trying to prevent people from switching to Mastodon.
- tiffanyh 4y agoA service is trying to make it difficult for you to switch to a competitor. Surprise surprise.
- lapcat 4y ago> Isn’t the simple answer, just > difficult for you to switch to a competitor Do you not see the self-contradiction in your own comments? In other words, the so-called "simple answer" is not so simple if you can't even post your Mastodon link on your Twitter profile.
- sebastialonso 4y agoIt is, and shockingly for some, it's also exercising free speech to point out the hypocrisy. You can do both!
- dEnigma 4y agoSure, but that changes nothing about the hipocrisy or your right to speak up against it. It's fine to point out flaws in something you're not (or no longer) a part of.
- lapcat 4y ago> he’s entitled to do what he wants with what he owns As has been said already many times, the debate is not whether he has the legal authority to do this, the debate is over his hypocrisy of claiming free speech absolutism.