“You are the one who claimed “It is all just binary arranged into images and text.” That argument would allow any sort of child porn, violent porn, etc., especially the animated or Photoshopped varieties (”no children or adults were harmed in the making of this video”).”
No it doesn’t...There just happens to be codified laws forbidding just a couple selective forms of binary images and text. There are no laws against any other forms of binary and they are protected by the 1st. Including adult porn whether we like it or not.
We start down this road and help open the door to this kind of capitulation to sensitive crybabies and soon images of Christian symbols and firearms will be next. If the tables were turned how then would you perceive it? Can’t have your cake and eat it too. I would be extremely hypocritical.
It either is free or it isn’t... Can’t have it both ways and be selective.
We already have freedom of speech laws allowing people to use racial slurs and symbols. Kanye has not been arrested, nor should he be.
We do not have laws requiring that privately-owned entities allow any and all free speech. We certainly should not expect Musk to allow the sort of free speech that could open up Twitter to lawsuits charging incitement to violence.
Free speech does not extend to libel (see Alex Jones). Nor does it extend to incitement to violence (or imminent danger such as shouting fire in a crowded theater).
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/970/incitement-to-imminent-lawless-action
Musk is running a business. If he wants to build a vibrant platform allowing free speech, he also has to draw a line. Normal people don’t flock to the sewer of 8kun for a reason. It’s a cesspool of nasty nutters. Kanye can post his anti-Semitic statements and symbols all he likes there.
This John Adams quote is often posted here on FR: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
If Twitter is to be a platform where people can exercise free speech without sinking into 8kun slime, it’s up to Musk to apply some moral standards.
Back in the days of the Founding Fathers, had there been a Hitler and swastika and 99.999% of the populace against Nazism (as is the case today), anyone who praised Hitler and plastered posters with that symbol in the town square would have been shouted down and driven from the square, and his posters ripped down. (They might have tarred and feathered him, too!)
On Twitter, other users can’t drive such a person away or rip down the Tweet. Musk has to step in where he thinks moral people would. He has to draw the line somewhere. And he has to protect himself from lawsuits.
images of Christian symbols
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Don’t you know that images of the cross are supposed to be swastikas, but the ends were secretly removed by those lying christians to hide that fact?
Give it a couple of days. Ban the cross.