Posted on 05/03/2022 12:32:51 PM PDT by hadit2here
Elon Musk is embarrassing himself on the global stage again by proudly bruiting a grade-school level of familiarity with the immensely complex concepts of free speech, censorship, rights and privileges of individuals and government authorities. The fact that this aggressively ignorant person is likely to take over one of the largest communication platforms on Earth should scare the shit out of you.
Here is what the richest man in the world said earlier today, on the platform he intends to acquire:
By ‘free speech,’ I simply mean that which matches the law. I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law. If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect. Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.
Elon’s got one thing going for him. He has demonstrated an apparently innate facility to pack more willful and privileged ignorance into a single sentence than almost anyone on the planet.
These statements are so fundamentally wrong — factually, ethically, practically, and in every other way, that I hardly know where to begin.
For one thing, he might want to look at the most elementary descriptions of what constitutes free speech and censorship. Censorship is when state authorities limit the speech of the people under their power. Free speech is the guarantee that no action defined as speech is illegal outside a few harmful examples, like harassment, hate speech and other special cases (under constant negotiation) that we as a society have decided constitute or exacerbate crimes.
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I’ll just go out on a limb and suggest that Joe Biden is probably a lot smarter than Devin Coldewey.
This leftist spaz has all kinds of connections to far left idiocy.
Your life will be a horror beyond the dreams of Satan. Deprivation, sorrow, torture, degeneracy of the basest nature will rain on you. How awful it will be.
“...no action defined as speech is illegal outside a few harmful examples, like harassment, hate speech and other special cases...”
Hate speech reference is a tip off. Next
On this site, I’ve found that if I make an error, a correction is almost always offered up promptly.
😜😛😀🤣😄😂
I’ll just go out on a limb and suggest Kamala Harris is probably a lot smarter than Devin Coldewey.
So Elon said:
“By ‘free speech,’ I simply mean that which matches the law. I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law. If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect. Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.”
And the author said, feigning a rebuttal:
“Free speech is the guarantee that no action defined as speech is illegal outside a few harmful examples, like harassment, hate speech and other special cases (under constant negotiation) that we as a society have decided constitute or exacerbate crimes.”
Which in a different way was very similar to what Elon said. LOL
Actually saw some liberal at Yahoo write:
“You idiots have no idea about civil discourse!”
Or something to that effect.
A complete lack of self-awareness.
Hahahahahahahahahaha! By the time I finished reading that passage, I felt exactly the same way.
If just for the wasted time and electrons, if nothing else.
"Devin Coldewey is a Seattle-based writer and photographer."
Looks like a spoiled brat that is full of himself.
Oh. That's just mean!
He looks very woke!!!
This guy is an idiot.
My, won’t these leftist pseudo intellectual frauds twist themselves into knots trying to explain why preventing anyone with a point of view different than theirs from speaking is moral and just.
This one used several thousand characters just to to tell us all he’s an illiterate authoritarian.
It’s amazing how so many people are backwardly stupid and arrogant about it. As Rush would say, a glimmering jewel of colossal ignorance.
Some folks struggle with simple concepts.
“Musk was basically saying the level of speech regulation in social media should mirror that of First Amendment legal protections.”
My impression was that, by saying this, he was making clear that he wouldn’t be setting Twitter up for lawsuits or criminal charges. Beyond that, any speech is fair play. He’s try to open up the forum but make it harder for FedGov to persecute him for it.
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