| I fully disagree. I am free to speak in Brazil. Freedom of speech must be defined clearly. You can’t scream fire in the theater, so I have proved it’s not absolute. Is it okay to spread misinformation online? I don’t think so. It’s as simple as that. Brazil due to 1/ the penetration of WhatsApp, Twitter and other social media and 2/ low penetration of newspapers and reading in general, is suffering from disinformation more so than any other country. I just have to read 5 or 6 tweets from X to see that twitter has become the cesspool of the internet. Freedom of speech is nowhere absolute. Freedom of speech in America is not a model. It’s not free if most media conglomerates are owned by billionaires with their own interest. They buy media companies not because they love them, because they can use them. Assuming otherwise is simply naive. Communication has played a crucial part of politics since forever. It’s impossible to take Musk seriously. And his stance is too convenient and hypocritical. He played by India’s and China’s very strict laws but is trying to gauge forces as a geopolitical player. This is not about freedom of speech. Pictures of dog scrotum are in my opinion a lowly form of rhetoric. It’s just too common, nowadays, to see freedom as a lack or constraints and not as the possibility of satisfaction. Freedom comes from Frater in Latin, since freedom in Greece meant to be among your brothers (Fratii in Latin), because when you are with your commons, you can achieve greater things. Freedom in speech as you say only serves those who can produce tons of bullshit which must be refuted with much more work by whoever’s sane. |