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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by jfk13 on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @09:12AM (#31167050)
> No mora bans on so called "hate speech", or politically dissident speech, only illegal speech

Twitter is not purely a US forum. In some places the law may say that "hate speech" is illegal, or that politically dissident speech is illegal... what then? Are you presuming that US jurisprudence should be the standard for all of humanity, worldwide?

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by raxxorraxor on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @05:57AM (#31178128)
My country has it and I hope it is ignored. I don't want to subject the rest of the world to such a narrow view of allowed conduct. Prosecution is opportunistic here which simply allows for abuse left and right without much safeguards. It is sold as a safety feature but it is just bad or in the worst case even malicious. Not at all against the US setting the standard here for once.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by nradov on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @11:17AM (#31168525)
Yes ideally all of humanity worldwide should adopt US standards on free speech. But in the meantime, Twitter and other online services can apply country specific blocks to individual pieces of user generated content.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by oceanplexian on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @10:15AM (#31167727)
Twitter is an US company so yes, it should espouse US values. If it were up to me, I wouldn’t operate Twitter in countries that don’t respect the human rights of their citizens, the same as we are supposedly doing in Russia.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by cinntaile on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @10:24AM (#31167833)
Make it US only, watch it die in 3,2,1.