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I wonder why the richest man in the world says he's about free speech. He lives in a country that considers money to be speech. He has the most speech of anyone, but that's not it surely.
He says he's about free speech because he agreed with the kinds of speech that get excluded from civil discussion. He considered people getting shunned for racist opinions to be censorship, while he considers terminating the accounts of anyone who disagrees with him to be his prerogative and perfectly fair.
Elon Musk has never actually stood for "Free Speech," only for the speech he likes. He SAYS he likes free speech purely because it has better optics for him and worse optics for his opposition than "Let me say racist things."
Free (my) speech.
Freeze peach.
How many people is a Brazilian?
I had a Brazilian professor. He was super smart, so maybe 3?
Yeah but how physically strong was he, that could make the person to Brazilian ratio change
A brazilion, obviously
no, say "cade e o br??", appended with multiple brazilian flag emojis
🎶 He's the worst CEO you've ever heard 🎶
🎶 He's the Angry Racist Twitter Nerd 🎶
I am currently helping to develop a platform that aims to catch Brazilians evading the ban, hopefully it will help enforcing the law.
The best thing you could possibly do is have children report on their parents for evading the ban. Or I suppose have neighbors report on each other.
It was really effective for the Stasi and the KGB.
Musk fan spotted.
Your sarcasm detector has clearly failed
Oh a sarcasm detector ? Well that's a really useful invention !
Mine just started spewing smoke. Not sure what to do now
I'm unsure why you would draw that conclusion. I don't know enough about Elon Musk to be either a fan of the man or a detractor of the man, but it is quite possible that he and I have views that intersect from time-to-time. Just as I'm guessing you and I may have views that intersect from time-to-time.
I'm also old enough to remember the Stasi and the KGB. So if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, I'm gonna call it a duck, and your project, if it really exists and wasn't you just blowing smoke, is exactly the kind of project those two organizations would have signed on for. Neither one of them wanted the citizens behind their Iron Curtain learning about things that were not State approved. So they actively suppressed those things and those who shared them, (cf. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, of whom you may have heard. If not, I encourage you to look him up).
Militaristic enforcement of a Ban on Musk's platform isn't very pro-Musk.
Sure you are.
How would that help anyone? Maybe spend your time promoting alternatives instead.
I am currently helping to develop a platform that aims to catch
Ooh child abusers?! Terrorists?!
Brazilians using a website
Oh
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Know you’re probably joking
a lot of brazillians are going to bluesky
Good, fuck censorship. If you don't stick up for those you disagree with one day they'll be censoring you.
Twitter gladly executes ban requests from right wing governments
Yeah, if twitter was run by a principled individual who actually was a free speech absolutist, I would be siding twitter. If twitter was anything other then an advertising platform, I would be siding with twitter. If twitter wasn't censoring news orgs that criticized Musk, I would be siding with twitter.
No, this is free speech absolutism. You can't say anything you want on any forum and expect zero consequences. That's ridiculous.
This comes from a Elon-drone like you, that ignores Musk banning people who make a joke about him or post where his plane took off to...
I mean, yes in theory, but it's also a social contract. We shouldn't allow people who advocate for violence or harm against other people.
There should be no censorship in theory. In theory, communism works. In theory.
First they came for the racists and nazis and I said nothing
What a limited view of the world.
At this point you can basically just search for the word "disagree" and it's 99% intellectual dishonesty.
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