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Freedom of speech at any cost. The end result is just if the means are just even if it results in loss of liberty, life, and happiness. That's a small price to pay to be able to say anything, anytime, and anywhere.

I enjoy this sarcasm very much

It pains me that I cannot (without falling to hypocriticism) tell you to shut up.

"Freedom of Speech at any cost"

Isn't this paradoxical? Our values don't exist in a vacuum they exist because they're believed at a macro world to make the world better, it seems if you tangibly think they make the world worse, or in your words "result in loss of liberty, life and happiness" the cost isn't worth it.

Free speech absolutists assign an infinite utility to free speech so all other cost terms become negligible.

Wow, loss of happiness :’( :’(

Not really a concern, honestly. The cool about Stoicism is that you can just dial up your happiness without any regard to external circumstances because you and you alone are responsible for your emotions.

That's why you support undoing laws banning

1. Distribution of child pornography

2. False medical claims on products

3. All forms of false advertising and fraud

4. Libel and slander

5. Publication of state military secrets

6. Distribution of revenge porn

EDIT: I may have missed sarcasm in the above post? I can't tell.

Finally, someone who understands true freedom.

Ahh, I see Elon has his priorities. Immediately tackling ... Users being penalized for spreading covid-19 misinfo, and users penalized for targeting trans people.

> covid-19 misinfo

I don't know, a lot of what was called misinfo a year ago has turned out to be correct.

Remember when you would get banned for saying that it could have been a lab leak? Those were the days.

I had my reddit account permanently banned for upvoting what was then called Covid misinformation.

"A lot" isn't the phrase I'd use here. Criticisms of various CDC policies around cloth masks are the big one. You could maybe include the gain-of-function stuff but the lab-leak theory hasn't "turned out to be correct."

What else is there? That it'd go away by Easter? That it'd be less deadly than the seasonal flu? That the vaccines would give me 5G reception?

> What else is there?

How about anything and everything related to the vaccine that didn't agree with the official line.

Suggesting natural immunity offers protection? Anti-vax misinformation.

Question if vaccines are safe for babies? Misinformation.

Publicly say that the vaccine isn't as safe or effective as advertised? Misinformation.

It was a lot.

Pff, my current Twitter feed is informational with the current events.

What happened during Trump was an idiotic shit storm which i hope can be blocked easily ( i do follow us politics somewhat, but not that kind of idiocracy).

Without corporations coordinating with the government to restrict information, I fear for the health of our democracy.

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