Re:Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
by krapp on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @01:01PM
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>There is no such thing as absolute free speech and I have no idea where you all are coming up with this idea.
As with so many plagues on American society and current political discourse, this came from Trump supporters, specifically angry at being banned from social media platforms for hate speech and disinformation, and suddenly deciding that rules and social consequences for their behavior were a violation of their civil rights. The attempt to redefine free speech is part of a movement to impugn social media platforms as engaging in widespread politically motivated suppression of free speech, with the implication they need to be forced by law to host the kind of content they would otherwise refuse to.
Re:Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
by MockObject on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @01:02PM
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> absolute free speech
This is a strawman argument, that nobody seriously proposed.
There is no such thing as absolute free speech and I have no idea where you all are coming up with this idea. By definition, absolute free speech cannot exist because your speech ends where mine begins. Free speech does not mean free from moderation or consequences and criticisms, both are forms of speech themselves. There is no authoritarian censorship going on here.