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Freedom of speech can be scary I know!

• jakelazaroff 3y ago
  Like when Elon started taking down a ton of posts at the behest of the Indian and Turkish governments? Or when he said "comedy is now legal on Twitter" and then suspended parody accounts? Or when he suspended accounts that tweeted public information for "doxxing" and then asked his 100m+ followers to identify someone in a video? Or when he banned people for posting links to competing social networks? Or when he made searches for "substack" return results for "newsletter"? It's exhausting to have to reiterate this constantly growing list every time this comes up. Free speech doesn't have to exist on private platforms and that's okay! We can stop pretending he cares about it!
  • refurb 3y ago
    So your concern is not freedom of speech, it's that the speech is being regulated in a way you don't want?
    • jakelazaroff 3y ago
      I don’t really have a concern. I’m just telling you that whatever’s happening over at Twitter? It’s not freedom of speech.
• seadan83 3y ago
  Talking over other people and being throttled down is not censorship. Being talked over, is censorship. Trolls don't have to be right, just louder. Their goal (from my perspective) is to pollute the information space. With large enough volume and noise, this seeks to invalidate all information. "If you can't be right, at least the other person won't be heard"