Posted on 04/14/2022 4:40:37 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
“At the end of the day,” former Reddit CEO Ellen K. Pao tweeted Tuesday, “the free-speechers really just want to be able to use racist slurs. CW: racism, immaturity, stupidity, and even more racism and extreme stupidity. They really don’t care about sharing new ideas or encouraging freedom other than the freedom to harass other people off the platform.” Pao included a screenshot of a message she apparently received, loaded with anti-Chinese slurs.
That’s all that people who say they want free speech are really about, you see, at least in the view of fashion-monitoring Leftists: insulting and hating people. But if Pao has such a dim view of “free-speechers,” what is she, exactly?
The same question could be asked of an increasing number of prominent Leftists, including Barack Obama, who claimed Wednesday that he was “close” to being “a First Amendment absolutist,” but then in practically the same breath called for a “combination of regulatory measures and, uh, industry norms” that would restrict speech on the Internet that he considered to be “disinformation.” You know, like the Hunter Biden laptop story was until a few weeks ago.
Pao was reflecting the mindset of others who have headed or still head the various social media giants. Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal said in 2018 that Twitter should “focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed. Where our role is particularly emphasized is who can be heard. And so increasingly our role is moving towards how we recommend content … how we direct people’s attention.” Sure. If those “free-speechers” were given free rein, they might end up directing people’s attention away from the opinions and views approved by the elites. People might even start thinking for themselves. Can’t have that.
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Wow...I guess when liberal “free-speechers” spew their garbage it’s just fine?
Life is beginning to imitate “Demolition Man”..
You got that right. See, according to Cocteau’s plan, I’m the enemy. Cause I like to think, I like to read. I’m into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I’m the kind if guy who wants to sit in a greasy spoon and think, “Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?” I want high cholesterol. I want to eat bacon, butter and buckets of cheese, okay? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in a non-smoking section. I wanna run through the streets naked with green Jello all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to. Okay, pal? I’ve seen the future, you know what it is? It’s a 47-year-old virgin sittin’ around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake singing “I’m an Oscar-Meyer Wiener”. You wanna live on top, you gotta live Cocteau’s way. What he wants, when he wants, how he wants. Your other choice: come down here, maybe starve to death.
Her hatred and bigotry against “Free Speechers” should not be tolerated.
They make it clear they have zero intention of living peacefully with those they disagree with.
Ellen is extremely stupid and I do not care what her race or sex is.
said in 2018 that Twitter should “focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed. Where our role is particularly emphasized is who can be heard. And so increasingly our role is moving towards how we recommend content … how we direct people’s attention.” Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal
“Where our role is particularly emphasized is who can be heard.... moving towards how we recommend content … how we direct people’s attention.” Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal
Almost tagline worthy, needs to be shortened—>
Twitter’s role is...how we recommend content … how we direct people’s attention.” CEO P. Agrawal
I’ll update the tagline page
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3992415/posts?q=1&;page=400#400
“...how we direct people’s attention.”
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AKA, how they push propaganda without allowing dissenting opinion.
Ellen K. Pao, Guilty, and apparently there's a chink in her armor.
Just a few weeks ago, during the Canadian Truckers protest, there was a rash of opinion pieces that denounced the whole idea of “freedom” as a “white supremacist” idea. So, having this clown pronounce that “freedom of speech” is a racist concept comes as no surprise.
What this broad hates about free speech is that she and her confederates are unable to argue without hearing an opposing viewpoint. They refer to everything they don’t want to hear as “hate” speech and seek to ban it.
Orwell said "Freedom is slavery". The Left is right there now: Freedom is a white supremacist idea and we'd all be better off avoiding that stuff and just settle into slavery.
Print a fact on line and frothing leftists start insulting you almost immediately. They curse, slur, lie, but I guess that’s ok because mean tweets, or something.
HA! I haven't been on Reddit for several years now and when I was she was pretty much hated by everyone back then. At least by the right-leaning.
Go back to China—or where ever—and see what FREE SPEECH is like THERE.
Rules for radicals:-)
If Pao couldn’t lie, she’d be a mute.
“1984” was not supposed to be a government and corporate handbook.
Reddit is full of communists.
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