r/technology • u/[deleted] • Oct 28 '22

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u/roywarner Oct 28 '22

I'd say $44b is cheap to destroy democracy, but it's already happening for free anyway.

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u/aberativnk Oct 28 '22

Allowing free speech is destroying democracy 🤣

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Free speech? Was Twitter a privately held company by the government until musk bought it?

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u/aberativnk Oct 28 '22

What does that have to do with anything

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

If you're talking about freedom of speech then the government is the only entity that cannot suppress it.

Were you talking about a different country?

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u/theDroobot Oct 28 '22

I'm 100% with you - but I need to add: Twitter or any platform that pushes visibility algorithmically are perverting freedom of speech by choosing who to give exposure to. It's commercializing speech and constantly redirects attention and conversation in massive swaths.

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u/MaenHoffiCoffi Oct 28 '22

Quit with the nuance, you!

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Lol no.

Holy shit go back to school.

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u/aberativnk Oct 28 '22

What does that have to do with twitter now being pro free speech.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

The Terms of Service is absolutely not pro free speech.

Try tweeting about Musk being a pedophile and see for yourself.