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[–] curiosityLynx@kbin.social 51 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Musk is a proponent of near-absolute free speech

Anything goes, so long as it doesn't hurt his feelings personally

[–] Sentinian@lemmy.one 25 points 2 years ago

As long as you don't use the term cisgender :)

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] curiosityLynx@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I would claim actual free speech absolutists don't exist.

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You're probably since those that preach about free speech are politically driven, hence biased to protect their stance. Rest of us have realized speech isn't free of consequence and the last third just doesn't give a fuck.

[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Defamation, fraud, hate speech, harassment, collusion, confidentiality, incitement...

No reasonable person actually thinks that free speech is an unlimited right. Plenty of kinds of speech are viewed as too harmful to be legal. The right is well understood to be about political speech only, and even then the edge cases can be hard to pin.

Anyone who claims to be an absolutist on free speech is insane or absolutely full of shit.

[–] 50gp@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

you forgot the most important one: being negative against musk/spez/freeSpeechAdmin123/insert any other free speech absolutist authority figure here

[–] Traumkaempfer@fedia.io 5 points 2 years ago

Didn’t he also give in to block a few accounts of political opponents in Turkey instead of risking being banned there completely, because he said it would be better to lose a few accounts instead of losing the whole country?

[–] Skyler@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

People are also not allowed to say the word "cisgender” over there

[–] FloatingAlong@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Woah dude, cool it with the c-bombs.

[–] FedericoSchonborn@beehaw.org 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's okay, I gave them a c-word pass.

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago

Some of my friends are c-words, so I can use it

[–] taanegl@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago

Freedom, by Musk... a cologne that's actually mace with directions to the local old folks home and instructions on how to use InShot.

[–] pizza_rolls@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Or when an authoritarian government asks him to block literally anything