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X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation (www.vice.com)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Remember when Musk painted himself as a free speech absolutist who would bring freedom to Twitter, and all of his fanboys believed him, and when he never delivered none of them did ever fucking care?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

"Free speech is me telling you what to believe."

I don't know who said this, probably someone famous.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

It's still free for them. In their mind, that's all that counts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's not free speech unless you mute people telling you you're wrong when you speak.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Personal favorite aneurysm was people insisting 'you can't tell him not to say that, he has free speech!'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Indeed, that's a quite common fundamental misunderstanding of what free speech is.