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Amazing: Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban just one book, the one about him (theguardian.com)
39 points by yabatopia 454 days ago
3 comments
JohnFen 454 days ago
None of these guys, not Zuckerberg, not Musk, none of them, are in favor of free speech unless it's speech they don't object to. They just mouth the words because they know it will play well to a large part of the public.
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ChrisArchitect 454 days ago
[dupe] discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43349473
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hyperhello 454 days ago
Counter-sloganeering is still sloganeering. Billionaires could publish books about you. Would you be okay with it?
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ipython 454 days ago
We already have billionaires slandering and harassing random people. So I find this argument moot.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593.amp

https://www.wsj.com/tech/musk-unleashes-online-army-on-feder...

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-87519-011

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ggm 454 days ago
Feels like a false moral equivalent. A billionaire doing anything is a billionaire not an equal. The equity brought to bear is innately unequal.

Calling Musk a Pedo is not the same as Musk calling a random involved in a cave rescue a Pedo.

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