62 sats \ 4 replies \ @Golu 1 Sep \ on: Elon Musk Warns Censorship Of X "Is A Certainty" If Kamala Harris Wins conspiracy
I never liked Elon. I'm also a businessman, not a billionaire like him, but I've never adopted negative tactics to gain popularity. He is such a man who always want to remain in limelight. In fact he's the biggest player there, but he is the biggest liar as well. I can't trust if he says Brazil is killing free speech because he is also not a big practitioner of free speech! I dare say someone write some allegations upon Musk on X and find out that your post got censored in seconds
He's the owner of twitter. He can censor who he wants. That's his expression of free speech. A third party censoring his platform is a violation of property rights
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What-the-fuck. When did you get your understanding of free-speech from?
Haven't you heard the "I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It"? That is free speech.
Free speech is about unconstrained flow of information in a distributed system of human beings. Any other way hinders the truth-seeking capability of that system.
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Exercising free speech is only applicable in the public domain. If i enter your house you have the right to kick me out if I say something you don't like. Right? Twitter is basically Musk's property. It's his right to set the rules. Whether it's a productive business practice is another question.
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I am not interested in discussing semantics and technicalities (FYI Musk himself compared Twitter to roman forum as public infrastructure for communication).
I am pointing out that Musk is not interested in "defending to his death their right to say things he doesn't agree with" on his platform.
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