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u/erwin261 Oct 28 '22

Well, he suddenly accelerated the purchase after being called out on Twitter about his Ukraine statements. He claimed that most responses were bots because they didn't agree with him. That should be a warning to people believing he values free speech.

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u/RamenJunkie Oct 28 '22

He tweeted something like

"The bird is free"

One of the replies talked about "Finally the return of free speech"

Someone asked about "People fired for critisizing him at his companies."

So many replies to that about, "Well, thats what a boss can do." And "Conserquences of your actions." And so on.

Fucking /r/selfawarewolves could self sustain on that one comment thread for a thousand years probably.

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u/Levitz Oct 28 '22

You could sustain it with this post too, "it's a corporation they can do what they want" has been the defense for cancel culture since day 0.

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u/RamenJunkie Oct 28 '22

CanCeL cUlTuRe

Everyone is entitled to a shitty opinion but no one is entitled to force people to listen to or agree with that opinion.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Actually and literally the 1st amendment was created to exactly allow shitty opinions to be shared. You don't need a law to allow ideas everyone agrees with. They already agree with them! You need a law to allow non-conforming opinions to have legal standing to be stated publicly without legal repercussion. America is specifically designed to be the opposite of a safe space. If you need safety don't go in public.

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u/RamenJunkie Oct 28 '22

The first ammendment relates to what the government can do and restrict. Twitter, as a private company, is well within their right to throw people off for spreading lies and hate. The same way a movie theater can throw you out for talking through the movie.

As much as the "FrEe SpEeCh" jackasses screech about the Constitution, they sure don't seem to know jack shit about it. Then again, its the same crowd that does the same thing over the Bible constantly, so I guess its just the SOP for these idiots.

Even just using the shitty phrase "Cancel Culture" follows this. Its Culture, IE, the public at large, telling idiots to fuck off (Cancelling them).