For Musk free speech is code word for “things I agree with”

  • bcgm3@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    I’m not good at metaphors… Does this mean he’s using “X” to shield us from free speech?

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      16 minutes ago

      That is the only thing free speech means to them. One sided uninterrupted and unchallenged propaganda.

  • yarr@feddit.nl
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    55 minutes ago

    Elon is busy turning X back into an echo chamber, except the pendulum has swung to the other side. It’s a shame people find such solace in echo chambers – intellectualism does not progress if you only speak with people you agree with. Indeed, it narrows conversation and thought so much it just turns into a circle jerk.

    Guess what? The real world is nasty and dirty and you are never going to agree with everyone. A preschool isn’t as safe a space as what Elon wants to (re)create.

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      15 minutes ago

      I like the balance we’ve found on Lemmy. We can discuss some pretty conservative ideas, but there’s zero intellectual value to transphobia or any other hate speech. People shouldn’t be required to re-explain their right to exist every generation.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.ml
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    43 minutes ago

    Musk is just another dipshit authoritarian, who thinks “speech” is reserved for people that matter (billionaires). He’ll sue the ass off of anyone else whos speech he doesn’t like.

  • lars@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 hours ago

    The free speech is also somehow a shield of all things. What will this guy think of buy next?

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    7 hours ago

    Would be funny if chemists couldn’t talk about cis and trans isomerisms anymore