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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by glenstein on Thursday April 14, 2022 @08:13AM (#31025840)
>A lot of the "free speech" complaints about social media amount to complaints about social media platforms adding content warnings about [alleged] sensational lies or penalising their reputation anyway.

Exactly. And I would add, nobody who claims they are a "free speech absolutist" can stay consistent with that declaration after even one or two simple questions.

Does free speech absolutism mean unmoderated ISIS and Al-Qaeda posts are fine? Because we need to expose them to healthy debate for the benefit of societal progress? The answer typically is "well that's not speech, that's _____", and then it's a debate over why there's a special different word for the type of speech they want to prohibit.

Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by tomp on Thursday April 14, 2022 @08:52AM (#31026280)
> Does free speech absolutism mean unmoderated ISIS and Al-Qaeda posts are fine?

As a free speech absolutist, "yes".

That's literally literally what the word "absolutism" in "free speech absolutism" means.

Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by glenstein on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:45AM (#31026906)
That is a laudable position of intellectual consistency! I agree that it is what the "absolutism" part means.
Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by notahacker on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:22AM (#31026636)
You may do, but the self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist" trying to buy Twitter thinks that making certain claims and revealing certain information about his companies is not at all fine, hence all the litigation against critical former employees
Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by rpmisms on Thursday April 14, 2022 @11:45AM (#31028478)
> nobody who claims they are a "free speech absolutist" can stay consistent with that declaration after even one or two simple questions.

Try me.