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[-] SaintWacko@midwest.social 118 points 11 months ago
[-] mhague@lemmy.world 82 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Red_October@lemmy.world 75 points 11 months ago

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."

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago
[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Freeze peach.

[-] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 56 points 11 months ago

How many people is a Brazilian?

[-] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 42 points 11 months ago

I had a Brazilian professor. He was super smart, so maybe 3?

[-] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

Yeah but how physically strong was he, that could make the person to Brazilian ratio change

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 22 points 11 months ago

A brazilion, obviously

[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago
[-] lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago

no, say "cade e o br??", appended with multiple brazilian flag emojis

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 27 points 11 months ago

🎶 He's the worst CEO you've ever heard 🎶

🎶 He's the Angry Racist Twitter Nerd 🎶

[-] Emmie@lemmings.world 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I am currently helping to develop a platform that aims to catch Brazilians evading the ban, hopefully it will help enforcing the law.

[-] rhacer@lemmy.world 60 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] Emmie@lemmings.world 6 points 11 months ago
[-] towerful@programming.dev 26 points 11 months ago

Your sarcasm detector has clearly failed

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 5 points 11 months ago

Oh a sarcasm detector ? Well that's a really useful invention !

[-] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

Mine just started spewing smoke. Not sure what to do now

[-] rhacer@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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).

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Militaristic enforcement of a Ban on Musk's platform isn't very pro-Musk.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 25 points 11 months ago

Sure you are.

[-] oktoberpaard@feddit.nl 22 points 11 months ago

How would that help anyone? Maybe spend your time promoting alternatives instead.

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[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 18 points 11 months ago

I am currently helping to develop a platform that aims to catch

Ooh child abusers?! Terrorists?!

Brazilians using a website

Oh

.Know you’re probably joking

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago

a lot of brazillians are going to bluesky

[-] kerrypacker@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Good, fuck censorship. If you don't stick up for those you disagree with one day they'll be censoring you.

[-] Arblor@programming.dev 59 points 11 months ago

Twitter gladly executes ban requests from right wing governments

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

No, this is free speech absolutism. You can't say anything you want on any forum and expect zero consequences. That's ridiculous.

[-] darki@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

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...

[-] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 22 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] jorp@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

First they came for the racists and nazis and I said nothing

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 months ago

What a limited view of the world.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

At this point you can basically just search for the word "disagree" and it's 99% intellectual dishonesty.

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