> At least Elon Musk is a very rich person who believes in free speech.
Yes thats exactly why he was willing to shell out 50,000$ to a kid to remove his flight tracking bot.
Stop licking his boot.
Yes thats exactly why he was willing to shell out 50,000$ to a kid to remove his flight tracking bot.
Stop licking his boot.
1. Those who back authoritarian style censorship conducted in opaque fashion
2. Those who back free speech and transparency
There is no such thing as absolute free speech and I have no idea where you all are coming up with this idea. By definition, absolute free speech cannot exist because your speech ends where mine begins. Free speech does not mean free from moderation or consequences and criticisms, both are forms of speech themselves. There is no authoritarian censorship going on here.
As with so many plagues on American society and current political discourse, this came from Trump supporters, specifically angry at being banned from social media platforms for hate speech and disinformation, and suddenly deciding that rules and social consequences for their behavior were a violation of their civil rights. The attempt to redefine free speech is part of a movement to impugn social media platforms as engaging in widespread politically motivated suppression of free speech, with the implication they need to be forced by law to host the kind of content they would otherwise refuse to.
This is a strawman argument, that nobody seriously proposed.
Advocating Totalitarian controls via Terms of Service, and/or Government !== Free Association
Come back when it attempts to have Twitter ban this persons account, then you may have a case, offering an monetary incentive for someone to change their behavior is not censorship in any form.
Stop being a tool