You're free to express your opinion. If I let you use my megaphone, I'm also free to take it back if I don't like what you're saying. Get over it.
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Elon Musk Claims Apple Has 'Mostly Stopped' Offering Ads on Twitter and Is Making Moderation Demands
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What social media app really isn't?
PS: Don't worry Be Real eventually will also.
In today's world with so much hating going on or discussions of whatever topic trends, I doubt many people really understand what true free speech is. Too many feel the need to be recognized as important, they'll cry out like middle school children just to be noticed so they can 'feel' they matter/are important within themselves. Not too different than a mob attending capital punishment in the early days when it was a town spectacle.
Seemingly so. However, he's made a twit/tweet that there are some things that could be damaging to Apple.
What's going on overseas with protests and issues at Foxconn really isn't helping. It seems the same old factory worker complaints/issues haven't ever been resolved from several years ago and as an apple user and fan this is really disheartening.
That's tricky when they're the same people making the laws impacting you, though
Just a small point, but you CAN actually legally yell fire in a crowded theater. Of course the theater could ban you for this (as could any private business), but legally it is protected speech. I see this commonly repeated in discussions of free speech and it's wrong.
Are you talking about democrats? I'm confused. They have been running congress and the White House for the past few years. So nobody is making laws but them.
Also please stop being cryptic and link to specific posts that you found troublesome in this thread.
Losing*. Unless thats a new term for this situation that I don't know.
Then why would they chime in? The person you're replying to is clearly talking about those who have been negative about Elon.
This is a strawman argument.
Point out where I said anything at all about a private person or business being required to allow another person or business freedom of speech on their platform. My comment was clearly about the difference between the concept of free speech vs. the legal protections of the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution.
You still thinking Fox News is far right, makes someone a clown and not the person you just called one.
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Right, you can say it and nobody is going to show up and arrest you for it. But as discussed, you're not free from consequence, including as you stated, the right for the theater to ban you to ensure the safety of their establishment and their other customers. It seems some folks around here would claim that such a ban is censorship. And additionally, if you yell fire in a crowded theater and I get injured from being trampled, I'm going to sue you for my medical bills as well as pain and suffering. And if someone should happen to die because of your actions be prepared to get hit with some form of manslaughter charge.
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Point being that someone taking their megaphone back from you is within the concept of free speech. Same as if Apple were to remove Twitter from the App Store. Free speech works both ways and if I don't want you using my platform, then that's me exercising my own free speech.
I suspect you can also be held liable for damages caused by your false assertion of impending doom, assuming there in fact isn't actually a fire breaking out in said theatre.
You're still free to yell fire in a crowded theatre, but if you do it and people are trampled as a result, in the good ol' US of Litigious America, you're going to loose your house.
Free speech, free open market - Musk should stop whining about Apple and others. He made his billions off the same freedoms he's both complaining about and espousing simultaneously. Can't have it both ways - companies are not beholden to advertise period, let alone on any particular channel.
Which app does Balenciaga have on the App Store? Again facts, you need to come up with facts and not some random tweet. Every time somebody asks you to back up your rambling, you ignore it.
This is actually not the same. Elon is criticizing Apple for apparently stopping their normal advertising on Twitter after his efforts to return free speech concepts to Twitter (again - not speaking legally about the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution at all here). If Apple does this it only affects Apple and Twitter. Apple is absolutely free to decide where to spend their money on advertising.
If Apple removes Twitter from its Appstore on the other hand, they are effectively going out of their way to silence Twitter and prevent others from easily accessing the service. Yes, obviously people can just go to Twitter in Safari, but I'm quite certain removing an app from the AppStore has extremely negative affects on that business. While this would likely be legal for Apple to do, it can, and should be severely criticized.
Apple strives to produce and support quality products. Musk's letting Trump and his cohort back on with the irrational and conspiracy support suggests Twitter will become a cesspool of unsupported, misleading ideas. Something the US and the world can do without.
True - it would be a clearly ridiculous and irresponsible thing to do and any jury would likely find that person acted recklessly and is liable for injuries. The difference I was bringing up is it is legally considered protected / free speech to yell fire in a crowded theater. Civil lawsuits on the other hand are an entirely different situation.
I was probably being a bit pedantic by pointing it out in the first place, but "yelling fire in a crowded theater is not legally protected free speech" is something I always took for granted as correct until someone recently pointed out to me that the opposite is actually true.
He isn't whining. He is pointing out what they are doing since they are doing it for no real reason. Shining a light on a business being political is not whining. Around half the country thinks differently than the liberal cult, so it is good of him to let us know what the cult is up to.
Other than SpaceX, he's a waste of space! About done with Twitter myself.
This is absolutely correct.
Musk (buys a social media site where people can freely post almost anything): "A billionaire should NOT own the ability to shape political discourse!!!!!"
Bezos (buys a literal newspaper - the Washington Post): "<Crickets>"