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The difference is you can just shrug it off and/or say nah I'm not a socialist and I'm not for violence. If you are labelled as a racist or homophobe, it is a serious attack on your character that many will automatically believe, and you have to do a lot of work to defend yourself. It's not the same at all.
Maybe you should be then aking WHY what you said is racist or homophobic. Make them justify it.
 
Musk keeps on doing his best drunk uncle at the holidays impression.

You can have your platform and whatever rules about speech you want. Why is Apple or any other company required to advertise on it? That's not what free speech means at all, you bloviating pile of gas.
Musk is the rich kid who never learned to shut up because his parents always let him have his way.
 
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Nice of you to admit that the left just wants to stop the spread of lies, misinformation, and hate from the right.

This doesn't work. The right can just say "we just want to stop the spread of censorship and control over what people can think and say".

If you keep talking past people and demanding that your political views obliterate the other side there is never going to be anything but bitter conflict.
 
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Political lines are shifting. People who were traditionally left of centre, but weren't far left, are now being labelled as far right just by disagreeing with the far left. This is something that society hasn't really grappled with yet.
Please show me some examples of this being a mainstream thing. Where are the center-left views of a few years ago now being called far-right?
 
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Liberal darling Alyssa Milano should issue a formal apology for the amount of love she threw in Elon's direction just a few short years ago. How could she love a "far right" personality as much as she did?
Darling? Who pays attention AT ALL to Alyssa Milano? You act like anyone cares what she says thats not a Friends fan. THe fact that YOU even remember she said anything says a lot more about you then liberals.
 
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Apple does a lot of business with China. It’s no surprise they don’t like free speech.

Musk is showing us just how much corporations control our thoughts. He’s risking his wealth and status to do so. I didnt have strong opinions about him before he bought Twitter. But he is really impressing me with his dedication to free speech.
Speaking of thoughts being controlled. ^^^
 
I don‘t understand your post. I certainly don't expect companies to ignore the laws of foreign countries they do business in.

The issue here is Apple using its money to control speech and thought in the United States, the country it is based in.
No such thing at all.
The are simply refusing to have anything to do with Nazi media, Apple has the same approach to Porn.
Your free speech has NOT been hampered, you can go onto the site via a web browser, and if you can't then the fault lies entirely with Twitter.
Apple is under no obligation to support your desires, nor are they stopping free speech.
 
My understanding is that social-media algorithms show you content based on your interests and search data.

I have literally never seen content like that even once on a social media platform. Plenty of guitars and music related topics though
I spend a LOT of time on twitter, and not myself or anyone I know of has ever seen kiddy porn. And MANY of my friends are social media marketers.
I did not actually see it but Twitter themselves admitted it was on their platform, don't take everything so literally. The fact is Apple knew this and never said a word.
 
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Apple has cut back on its Twitter advertising, according to Twitter CEO Elon Musk. In a tweet, Musk said that Apple has "mostly stopped" its Twitter ads, asking if Apple hates "free speech."
Apple doesn’t advertise on Parler or Truth Social. Do they hate free speech in America?
Tesla doesn't advertise on Twitter. Or anywhere else for that matter.

That must mean that Tesla and its CEO hates free speech

 
yep and you just described why there is such outrage from the left and their media counterparts ever since Elon took over.
I mean look at 4chan, what Musk wants already exists, and its literally known as a cesspool of the internet that has almost 0 advertisers. So, I don't know what Musk expected vs what he got.
 
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