• Rubanski@lemm.ee
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    7 hours ago

    Free speech absolutists as free as Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is democratic

  • Mechaguana
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    Should be a law that everytime you invoke free speech on your website any demonstrable action contrary to it should result into a massive fine for lying and an automatic shutdown after a certain amount of violations.

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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      19 hours ago

      Given Musks new role in the Federal Government, that may no longer be true.

      Musk censoring public discussion (either personally, or done at his direction) may amount to First Amendment violations, given he’s now a government representative (though they’re trying to argue he isn’t).

      Is modifying an AI to refuse to provide information on him, considered censoring public speech? Probably not; but he’s not ‘free to do whatever he likes’.

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      19 hours ago

      I agree. But the problem is he thinks he can do the same shit with the government.

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      18 hours ago

      And we’re all free to call out the thin-skinned, nazi shitstain whenever he acts like a pathetic, hypocritical child. The fact that it’s not illegal doesn’t mean it can’t be criticized.

      Not that he’d be any safer from criticism if we were only allowed to mock people who break the law.

    • TheObviousSolution@kbin.melroy.org
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      No. There’s this thing called laws and regulation, shill. Go back to the shitter of a country whose recycled garbage arguments you are propping up that just decides to label those regulations “deep state” in crayon before throwing them in the gutter. Outside of it, our governments still have a fair decent number of them and they are still holding fast against the number of idiots in their respective society that are being feed the most ignorant and reactionary form of propaganda because their governments haven’t rotted by a resounding patriotic “we are perfect, why bother with actual reform?”

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      18 hours ago

      And that’s why anyone who is still on his platform should be boycotted.