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Comment by TibbityFlanders | Hacker News Reader

It's frightening how authoritarian the Left has become around the world. Ambiguous laws about'hate' seem poised to protect the world from thought crimes by curtailing basic human rights.

In this context Musk is right and has the power to bring change. He will lose a lot of that power under a Harris presidency that has advertised it plans to continue the crusade against freedom of speech.

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Wow, just wow. The gloves are off. I wouldn’t expect anything this naive on HN.

There is a difference between freedom of expression (freedom of opinion) and freedom of speech. The latter contains the former, but is much more than that because freedom of expression stops where hate and discrimination begins.

The human right of free speech protects hate, disinformation, and a host of other horrible words one might say. That's because hate and disinformation are ambiguous terms used be tyrants to arrest dissidents. So long as someone isn't making true threats, or inciting imminent lawlessness, humans have a right to their own thoughts and the expression of their ideas. Your definition of hate is bit universal and will only lead to tyranny.

How is preventing a color revolution "authoritarian"?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/08/brazil-...

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202112/1240540.shtml

You'd want the white house to do the same if China would want to do something similar with, let's say, TikTok ;)

*would lose a lot of that power.

I'm hoping for a different outcome and the world turns in a better direction than forcing "Democrats" to vote for an un-nominated candidate.

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