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To: blueplum
Musk, a self-described free speech absolutist,

Except when it messes with the $$$
52 posted on 12/02/2022 8:42:40 AM PST by Izzatso
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To: Izzatso

The trouble is, if you allow anything-goes absolute free speech, you get a cesspool like 8kun. How many people hang out on 8kun and how many on Twitter? You can’t have a free market and absolute free speech on every platform. You are, however, free to choose the platform you prefer. You want absolute free speech? Go to 8kun. You don’t want to be immersed in blasphemy, obscenity and profanity? There’s FR. And so on.

We have always put limits on free speech in this country, even back in the days of the Founding Fathers, either through social pressure or through laws. See my #51:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4113330/posts?page=51#51


53 posted on 12/02/2022 9:07:36 AM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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