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The good players are the US on this front. I say this as a European. Europe at large is in a dark place in terms of freedom of speech, the press, and other issu
by simianparrot 9mo ago
The good players are the US on this front. I say this as a European. Europe at large is in a dark place in terms of freedom of speech, the press, and other issues like immigration. And the US might eventually have to be the ones to apply force to hold our leaders accountable, ironic as that is given history.
- jsiepkes 9mo ago> The good players are the US on this front. Don't be fooled. People like Elon aren't pro-free speech. They only want their speech. For example on Elon's X you can call people all kinds of things but calling someone "CIS gendered" is a ban-able offense [1]. Linking to other platforms was also forbidden for a while and in the H1B discussion X shadow banned a bunch of people [2] and I could go on for a while. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2023/07/02/elon-musk-deems-cis-a-twitter-slurheres-why-its-is-so-polarizing/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2023/07/02/elon-mus... [2] https://www.newsweek.com/laura-loomer-elon-musk-x-twitter-h1b-censorship-2008940 https://www.newsweek.com/laura-loomer-elon-musk-x-twitter-h1...
- redox99 9mo agoHim being a hypocrite doesn't make him wrong Do as I say, not as I do.
- pelorat 9mo agoThey can't even say "fuck" on TV in the USA, and god forbit a female nipple
- nozzlegear 9mo agoThat's just a cultural difference between Europeans and Americans, it has nothing to do with freedom of speech in the US.
- pezezin 9mo agoBy that logic, everything is a cultural difference...
- simianparrot 9mo agoYou can say fuck on TV, it just increases the age rating. Same with showing nipples. Freedom of speech isn’t freedom from _any_ consequences of speech…
- nozzlegear 9mo agoThere are indeed a lot of cultural differences between the United States and Europe.