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Re:Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed; 2000 Laid Of... by refurb on Monday June 19, 2023 @12:21PM (#36392868)
Freedom of speech can be scary I know!
Re:Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed; 2000 Laid Of... by jakelazaroff on Monday June 19, 2023 @12:34PM (#36393052)
Like when Elon started taking down a ton of posts at the behest of the Indian and Turkish governments? Or when he said "comedy is now legal on Twitter" and then suspended parody accounts? Or when he suspended accounts that tweeted public information for "doxxing" and then asked his 100m+ followers to identify someone in a video? Or when he banned people for posting links to competing social networks? Or when he made searches for "substack" return results for "newsletter"?

It's exhausting to have to reiterate this constantly growing list every time this comes up. Free speech doesn't have to exist on private platforms and that's okay! We can stop pretending he cares about it!

Re:Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed; 2000 Laid Of... by refurb on Monday June 19, 2023 @09:20PM (#36398592)
So your concern is not freedom of speech, it's that the speech is being regulated in a way you don't want?
Re:Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed; 2000 Laid Of... by jakelazaroff on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @12:25AM (#36399698)
I don’t really have a concern. I’m just telling you that whatever’s happening over at Twitter? It’s not freedom of speech.
Re:Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed; 2000 Laid Of... by seadan83 on Monday June 19, 2023 @01:35PM (#36394059)
Talking over other people and being throttled down is not censorship. Being talked over, is censorship.

Trolls don't have to be right, just louder. Their goal (from my perspective) is to pollute the information space. With large enough volume and noise, the is to invalidate all information.