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Are there any counterexamples to what the author presents as the inevitability of European open market regulations? > And we certainly don’t want more Elon Mus

Are there any counterexamples to what the author presents as the inevitability of European open market regulations? > And we certainly don’t want more Elon Musks in the world. Boy, wouldn't it be horrible if we got more Tesla's, SpaceX's, Starlink's, and freedom of speech on social media in the world!

hef19898 3y ago
More governmwnt subsidized launch companies, car makers building shitty cars with bad servicing networks and more right wing BS on the internet? Yes, why puldn't we want that?
mst 3y ago
SpaceX is awesome and I'm glad we have -one- Elon Musk but I'm not convinced we need more than that.
Mashimo 3y ago
> freedom of speech on social media in the world! Did that get better? I though twitter fired a lot of lawyers who held up freedom of speech and now the company is folding against governments like Turkey. But I have mostly only read headlines. Would love to read more about it.
- oatmeal1 3y ago
  Twitter revealed illegal government censorship of US social media because Elon bought it and was transparent. That's what I'm referring to. I don't know much about Twitter's legal fights against authoritarian countries' censorship of free speech, but that doesn't seem like a particularly winnable battle anyway.
  - Mashimo 3y ago
    Well they tried. For example here: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0UL13A/ https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0UL13A/ Even if it would result in twitter being blocked in Turkey. Now they rolled over https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-censoring-content-recep-tayyip-erdogan-turkish-presidential-election/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-censoring-content-recep... Do you have more information about the "illegal government censorship of US social media"?
- fnordian_slip 3y ago
  Well, freedom of speech for racists got better, while freedom of speech for critics of authoritarian governments has been reduced. Since the number of people affected by censoring has been reduced, some people call that a win for freedom of speech (as Twitter contains more racists than government critics from countries like India and Turkey). Not surprisingly, the self-proclaimed "free-speech-absolutionist" has no problem with censoring critics of himself, too, and only token resistance to offer towards demands of censorship by authoritarian governments.

hef19898 3y ago

More governmwnt subsidized launch companies, car makers building shitty cars with bad servicing networks and more right wing BS on the internet? Yes, why puldn't we want that?

mst 3y ago

SpaceX is awesome and I'm glad we have -one- Elon Musk but I'm not convinced we need more than that.

Mashimo 3y ago

> freedom of speech on social media in the world! Did that get better? I though twitter fired a lot of lawyers who held up freedom of speech and now the company is folding against governments like Turkey. But I have mostly only read headlines. Would love to read more about it.

oatmeal1 3y ago
Twitter revealed illegal government censorship of US social media because Elon bought it and was transparent. That's what I'm referring to. I don't know much about Twitter's legal fights against authoritarian countries' censorship of free speech, but that doesn't seem like a particularly winnable battle anyway.
- Mashimo 3y ago
  Well they tried. For example here: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0UL13A/ https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0UL13A/ Even if it would result in twitter being blocked in Turkey. Now they rolled over https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-censoring-content-recep-tayyip-erdogan-turkish-presidential-election/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-censoring-content-recep... Do you have more information about the "illegal government censorship of US social media"?
fnordian_slip 3y ago
Well, freedom of speech for racists got better, while freedom of speech for critics of authoritarian governments has been reduced. Since the number of people affected by censoring has been reduced, some people call that a win for freedom of speech (as Twitter contains more racists than government critics from countries like India and Turkey). Not surprisingly, the self-proclaimed "free-speech-absolutionist" has no problem with censoring critics of himself, too, and only token resistance to offer towards demands of censorship by authoritarian governments.