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by icy_deadposts 945 days ago
"Stand with X to protect free speech...for speech to be truly free, we must also have the freedom to see or hear things that some people may consider objectionable"

Why is this proponent of free speech having a thermonuclear meltdown because some group published a report? Could anyone explain the logic or thought process?
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rsynnott 945 days ago
A lot of people who beat the “freedom of speech” drum hardest don’t care about freedom of speech at all; they care that their speech is _protected from criticism_.
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alemanek 945 days ago
Musk is failing into the fallacy that free speech means freedom from judgement. He is so self obsessed that he doesn’t see that others are simply exercising their freedom of speech by way of disassociation from him and his businesses.

It’s actually a bit shocking that he doesn’t appear to get this as it seems incredibly basic. You act like an asshole at my house party I am going to kick you out of my house. You still have the freedom to be an asshole but you will have to do that someplace else.

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