Literally no “free speech absolutist” has ever actually been a “free speech absolutist”, it is always about wanting to avoid the consequences to their own hate speech, while they hold anyone who opposes it doubly accountable for their opposition, and try, often successfully, to silence that.
And they always seem to confuse that free speech just protects them from their government, not the rest of the world, and will have consequences.
Yeah, it’s always those who shout loudest about free speech that have the least understanding of how it works. 😂
If they understood they wouldn’t shout about it. Or maybe they would, they’re just banking on other people’s ignorance.
“My freedom to say what I want, and the ability to filter what others say, is absolute.”
— E. Musk
And all he had to do to do that was buy Twitter.
Duh. Did this really need to be a whole article?
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It’s wild that articles like this are made… If you even have an small touch stone of common sense it’s pretty obvious billionaires rarely do things for people unless it out proportionally helps themselves.
Well now you got something black on white that you can cite and point to for collected evidence. That’s… something?
I wonder if “Elon Musk is absolutely a ‘hate speech assholutist’” would fit him better, meaning that inviting him here to comment may end up with him in violation of ‘Rule 6’ and likely end up being banned with no warning given.
It’s kinda why most people laughingly put it in scare quotes - and not just when talking about Elmo.
The real question is why people insist on continuing to use Xitter.
Did they just figure that out? Not like years ago?
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