Elon’s pro hate-speech platform?
Remember when the left fought for freedom of speech? When the ACLU would go to court for the Klan’s right to march, or for Nazis to be able to speak? When freedoms for everyone actually meant everyone, not just people we like.
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The downvotes here make me sad for freedom of speech and human rights. The left has abandoned free speech.
https://www.aclu.org/documents/aclu-history-taking-stand-free-speech-skokie
https://reason.com/2020/12/20/would-the-aclu-still-defend-nazis-right-to-march-in-skokie/
Yeah! You’re 100% right!!! Freedom for everyone! Just because they’re from a small non-profit doesn’t mean they’re not entitled to the same protections everyone else enjoys. You, I, and everyone else have the right to say Twitter promotes hate speech and Elon is a racist bastard, and he shouldn’t be able to stop that no matter how much money he has! Especially if they have the proof to back it up!
The US government doesn’t prohibit Nazi’s from marching, nor does it silence them. So… What the fuck are you talking about?
The reason these types don’t do this more is because most people fucking abhore them. Free speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences, or universal tolerance… It just means the government isn’t allowed to silence their citizens.
There are exceptions to this when it comes to public safety (e.g. Yelling “FIRE” in a public theater), but overall the US holds firm on allowing people to say and do what they want.
In Musk’s case, he doesn’t support anything even remotely resembling free speech. He is constantly being called out for silencing people and organizations he disagrees with. He keeps trying to pretend he’s not doing this by projecting his own brazen actions on the very people he’s attacking. It’s a very Trump-esque technique, and it can be very effective among dumb and impressionable people.
The US government doesn’t prohibit Nazi’s from marching, nor does it silence them.
https://www.aclu.org/documents/aclu-history-taking-stand-free-speech-skokie
https://reason.com/2020/12/20/would-the-aclu-still-defend-nazis-right-to-march-in-skokie/
I have no idea what you’re trying to say here… Care to elaborate?
To be tolerant you have to intolerante the intolerant.
you’re referring to the paradox of tolerance
Yeah, and look what happened when bigots were emboldened.
There’s a difference between not allowing the government to stop private speech, and a private platform hosting stochastic terrorism and attacking anyone who tries to tell them it’s wrong.
You can sue the government for infringing your rights. You can’t sue (and win against) researchers who are literally just stating your actions and pointing to the immediate and obvious consequences.
Freedom from the government. They fought against censorship from the government. No one wants to hear their hateful shit be prioritized by an algo so that they get a megaphone on a private platform. Fuck. That. Noise.
It’s always “whataboutisms” with this type. Never an actual defense, just a deflection to something else.
I don’t recall the ACLU ever fighting to compel a private business to promote or facilitate hate speech.
Something something reach, said by some moron.
Musk is trying to block their freedom to monitor Twitter, largely it seems because it’s pointing out the hate speech.
if I can’t call people slurs or post child porn then free speech is dead
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This is the sort of thing someone with a persecution complex would say.
Freedom of speech! Unless you criticize the governments of Turkey or India. Or give out public information about where Musk’s private plane is parked or flying. Or report on that account giving out that information. Or report on the hate speech on Twitter.
Other than that, Musk is entirely in favor of freedom of speech! Until he can come up with another exception.
What exactly does that have to do with Musk’s hypocritical stance on “free speech?”
It has to do with what I said.
Which has nothing to do with Elon Musk? You just picked a random thread to rant in?
Oh wow, I bet Musky doesn’t even see the OPEN contradiction taking place in this single, succinct statement. What a fucking moron…
Free speech is a dog whistle for hate speech. Now there’s no contradiction if you read it like that.
I love free speech so much I’ll sue anyone who badmouths me!
Wouldn’t criticising Twitter’s inefficient moderation be covered by “free speech”? It’s censorship under the guise of preservation.
Even censorship is a form of free speech.
Example: I used to be homeless in Los Angeles. During that time, an Occupy Wall Street protester wrote on the ground in chalk “fuck the police”.
A passerby was upset at this, and they poured water over the “fuck”, erasing it.
Both the protestor and the passerby had expressed themselves in their own way.
“Free expression is most important!!! (…except when you criticize us!)”
Where’s this “half a billion” number coming from?
Probably total number of registered accounts ever. Including bots and all the people Musk banned.
Bots, bots everywhere …
Lmao! Crimethinc and It’s Going Down are still banned. The only free speech allowed on that fascist’s website is literal Nazi speech.
Despite who’s continued progress of safety? You fired your safety team!
-they said, from an account they “reclaimed” from a user with little warning and no compensation. So supportive of their users!
This dude went to so much trouble just to tweet as X.
MDMA should send a cease & desist letter.
They aren’t tweets anymore. They are Xcrements.
From this dude they always were.
I’m really happy that everyone just preemptively rejected hate speech here on Lemmy.
Only if you ignore exploding heads…
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First time I’ve heard of the Center for Countering Digital Hate. Thanks Elon. I wish I believed that he wanted to support free speech on XTwitter. But I don’t. I think he just silenced CCDH for saying mean things against his thingie.
Twitter sided with the Turkish government and censored the accounts of political opponents ahead of a contentious election.
Twitter accused of censorship in India as it blocks Modi critics. Canadian politician, poet, an India MP and journalists are among 120 accounts that have been withheld
Very consistent with his claims /s
Ahh what a man for free expression. There has never been a time where he has broke that /s
Google search “Twitter Hate Speech”. Everyone and their mom has been reporting on the increase in hate speech at Twitter since Musk took over. Of course, he waits to sue until a small non-profit comes along, albeit one with a stellar reputation, whose resources he can exhaust in courts, which will count as a “win” in the eyes of his worshipers.
I can see it now, “Musk defeats liberal beta SJW cucks, a decisive blow for free speech.”
There’s no way the EFF wouldn’t step in and help with legal bills if they needed to.
At X we love Hate Speech. Also we consider the word “cisgender” hate speech, but in a bad way
Elon found the good hate speech! He IS a genius. 🤣
