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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by seventytwo on Thursday April 14, 2022 @08:51AM (#31026277)
if you can sue them, and their right to speech is absolute, then you won’t win.

See the problem here?

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by mrtksn on Friday April 15, 2022 @01:41AM (#31036908)
No, there's no problem there. Speech freedom being absolute doesn't have anything to do with lying, scamming, giving orders to do illegal things etc.

Think of this having absolute freedom over how you spend your money. There's no direct mechanism preventing you from buying illegal stuff but you can still get in trouble if you buy illegal stuff. This is not a contradiction.

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by seventytwo on Friday April 15, 2022 @04:07PM (#31045145)
I don’t think you understand what “absolute” means…
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