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Also free speech in law just means you can’t be prosecuted to say stupid things. It doesn’t mean that anyone owes you the canal to say your stupid things. The
by pjerem 2y ago
Also free speech in law just means you can’t be prosecuted to say stupid things. It doesn’t mean that anyone owes you the canal to say your stupid things.
The previous twitter had (somehow) moderation. You would think what you want about it but you were free to use your free speech right elsewhere.
The difference is that Musk says that it gives you this canal but he lies because he is still moderating the network, except the moderation now favors far right content.
That’s not more free speech than before, that’s just a pro-fascist moderation.
- smcin 2y agoI think when you say 'canal' you mean 'channel' (translating from French?), or more commonly 'platform'.
- pjerem 2y agoYou are right, thank you
- bigstrat2003 2y agoFree speech is both an ideal, and something which is guaranteed by law (in some countries anyways). As a matter of law, you're correct. If you aren't prosecuted for your speech, then the law of free speech wasn't violated. But extralegal actions can still be (and often are) contrary to the ideal of free speech and are criticized on that basis. It is common, but erroneous, to conflate these two senses of "free speech".