Re:Midjourney CEO Silencing Satire About Xi Jinping
by pengstrom on Monday April 03, 2023 @04:37AM
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Or course, and their decisions are free to be scrutinized.
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Re:Midjourney CEO Silencing Satire About Xi Jinping
by WiSaGaN on Monday April 03, 2023 @04:45AM
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Scrutiny is justified. However, it should be within the scope of whether the product fulfills the need and should have nothing to do with "sovereignty" or "free speech rights," don't you think?
Re:Midjourney CEO Silencing Satire About Xi Jinping
by hyperpape on Monday April 03, 2023 @05:50AM
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Can't believe how often I see this sentiment, and how nonsensical it is.
We're private citizens, nothing prevents us from criticizing them for a wide variety of reasons. If you want to restrict yourself and ignore everything except the literal function of the product, you're free to do that, but you can't argue everyone else has to do the same.
Or is your argument that we have some kind of social responsibility to judge products based on exclusively on what the product does, but the product has no social responsibility whatsoever? That's a double standard that can't have any justification.
Re:Midjourney CEO Silencing Satire About Xi Jinping
by WiSaGaN on Monday April 03, 2023 @06:26AM
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No one is preventing you from criticizing them. I am just saying that criticism from the standpoint of free speech or sovereignty is inconsistent with the idea that you can satirize whatever or whoever you want.
Re:Midjourney CEO Silencing Satire About Xi Jinping
by krisoft on Monday April 03, 2023 @09:42AM
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> I am just saying that criticism from the standpoint of free speech or sovereignty is inconsistent with the idea that you can satirize whatever or whoever you want.
I don't understand what you are saying. Criticising a company on free speech grounds who prevent you from satirising someone is absolutely consistent. What inconsistency are you seeing?