Everyone means everyone no matter how offensive they may be, that's the ENTIRE point of free speech.
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Elon Musk Is Officially Purchasing Twitter for $44 Billion
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What is a bit confusing.. the right is cheering this as a "free speech" move, thinking the orange buffoon will be tweeting again, when he, himself has said he would not... but then again, he hasn't been the truth sayer in the past so who really knows.
Also, the right is anti green energy, yet they are now rooting for Musk today? Hypocrite much?
Finally.. Musk claims he is all for free speech, yet he has blocked countless people on Twitter?
Such nonsense
Also, the right is anti green energy, yet they are now rooting for Musk today? Hypocrite much?
Finally.. Musk claims he is all for free speech, yet he has blocked countless people on Twitter?
Such nonsense
And how many Supreme Court justices were appointed by Trump in his single 4-year term?
Three?
Also federal appointments... again in just 4 years:
Whom said anything about lack of moderation. It’s been 1 sided for years.
I’m not gonna care if a former president comes back and babbles, but he does have the right to.
There is a BIG difference between stupidity, malicious and danger to society vs right to free speech. Leaving just because a new owner wants to improve and open source the decisions’ algorithm shows you’re not prepared to fight for your own free speech but just run.
I say stick around and see how it evolves. Musk could screw things up, or his team that he brings in. It’s possible, just as possible as he can really improve it. Sure as hell the flip-flopping of the former CEO first praising Musk and when he chose made it seem like he was distasteful = THAT to me is a form of censorship and back-stabbing. That’s worse than arbitrarily blocking anyone regardless of their views of opinion.
For those of you afraid of definition of opinion (and don’t have built-in dictionaries in your devices):
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Nice strawman, but our excitement about this has nothing to do with President Trump, it's about removing woke leftist shills from one of the largest media companies and removing censorship from one of the largest social media platforms in the world.
Doesn’t matter if I agree or disagree — if it hastens the demise of Twitter and other cancerous social media platforms, then let’s go! 
Court packing means creating new seats, President Trump solely replaced seats when they opened up as usual.
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But you will root for Musk when convenient? And it's ok for musk himself to censor people?
Pick a lane...
what , Free Speech is Free Speech and that included “Hate” Speech . My issue with Term Hate Speech is that it literally depends on the individual offended by it.
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Literally where did I say anything like that lmao.
As for picking a team, I did long ago; the team that opposes #UraniumOne and flagrant corruption.
I believe there is a massive difference between Elon personally blocking individuals from his personal account and the banning of individuals from the entire platform.
Does Twitter have to allow "Free Speech" in the first place?
I thought it was a private company?
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"No" would be the answer
They also shouldn't endeavor to allow things like "hate speech"
I'm not sure who on Earth thinks any platform where that is tolerated is a place anyone but the worst kind of people would want to frequent.
I'm not even sure what some folks are advocating for.
It seems like there is a contingent of the "I just want to see the world burn" crowd out there.
Musk defined his goal for Twitter....
“A good sign as to whether there is free speech is: Is someone you don’t like allowed to say something you don’t like? If that is the case, then we have free speech"
Yet...
Those who have said things Musk didn’t like have seen their reputations publicly trashed. Vernon Unsworth, a British caver who helped rescue 12 boys trapped in Thailand, called Musk’s efforts to help a “PR stunt” in 2018. Musk retaliated by calling him a “pedo guy.” Then he paid $50,000 to a dubious private investigator to dig into Unsworth’s background in the U.K. and Thailand. He also attempted to depose a reporter, Ryan Mac, who was covering Unsworth’s defamation lawsuit against Musk.
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Musk went after Martin Tripp, a worker at Tesla’s battery plant in Nevada. Tripp saw himself as an idealist trying to improve the company’s operations; Musk viewed him as a dangerous foe who engaged in sabotage and shared data with the press and “unknown third parties.”
Tesla’s PR department spread false rumors that Tripp was possibly homicidal and had threatened to “shoot the place up,” even though authorities had already determined that Tripp posed no immediate threat and wasn’t armed.
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Another employee was fired six days after he posted a YouTube video of his Tesla Model 3 running into a traffic pylon while using “FSD Beta,” an early version of software that Tesla has rolled out to roughly 100,000 people.
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And then there’s the case of Jack Sweeney, a Florida teenager who tracks private jets. A few months ago, Musk reached out to him and offered $5,000 to shut down the “Elon’s Jet” account, Sweeney said. Musk viewed it as a security risk. Sweeney asked for $50,000, which Musk refused. The billionaire then blocked some of the social media accounts connected to Sweeney.
He's not the white knight people think
“A good sign as to whether there is free speech is: Is someone you don’t like allowed to say something you don’t like? If that is the case, then we have free speech"
Yet...
Those who have said things Musk didn’t like have seen their reputations publicly trashed. Vernon Unsworth, a British caver who helped rescue 12 boys trapped in Thailand, called Musk’s efforts to help a “PR stunt” in 2018. Musk retaliated by calling him a “pedo guy.” Then he paid $50,000 to a dubious private investigator to dig into Unsworth’s background in the U.K. and Thailand. He also attempted to depose a reporter, Ryan Mac, who was covering Unsworth’s defamation lawsuit against Musk.
or
Musk went after Martin Tripp, a worker at Tesla’s battery plant in Nevada. Tripp saw himself as an idealist trying to improve the company’s operations; Musk viewed him as a dangerous foe who engaged in sabotage and shared data with the press and “unknown third parties.”
Tesla’s PR department spread false rumors that Tripp was possibly homicidal and had threatened to “shoot the place up,” even though authorities had already determined that Tripp posed no immediate threat and wasn’t armed.
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Another employee was fired six days after he posted a YouTube video of his Tesla Model 3 running into a traffic pylon while using “FSD Beta,” an early version of software that Tesla has rolled out to roughly 100,000 people.
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And then there’s the case of Jack Sweeney, a Florida teenager who tracks private jets. A few months ago, Musk reached out to him and offered $5,000 to shut down the “Elon’s Jet” account, Sweeney said. Musk viewed it as a security risk. Sweeney asked for $50,000, which Musk refused. The billionaire then blocked some of the social media accounts connected to Sweeney.
He's not the white knight people think
This attitude is the result of decades of divisiveness and wedge politics by Democratic Party. The old line Democrats at least pretended to care.
Speaks volumes about you as a person. If I saw a wrecked car I'd be helping the human beings inside out long before I bothered to look at their bumper.
lol none of your examples in contrary to his free speech statement
Members of the Republican Party literally tried to overthrow the government and destroy democracy. I’m a registered republican, but I’ll call it like I see it. If you think otherwise, you’re drinking the cult koolaid my friend.
“registered republican” - Democrat Lying
Exactly.
Republicans were more concerned about an attack on US facilities in Libya... than they were on their own US Capitol building.
Remember the 2.5 years of Benghazi investigations?
Pepperidge Farm remembers...
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Exactly! Though I went a step further in 2016 and registered independent. Long line of republicans in my family, but what we see today is NOT the Republican Party.
I'll vote for a candidate up and down the ticket, regardless of party.
I love that image because people come crawling out of the woodwork whenever it's posted only to prove that it's 100% accurate.
Hey @turbineseaplane , does this count as "hate speech", should this person be censored and removed from this platform?
If this members comments had been directed at a race or gender they would be perma banned in a second but they are free to spew hateful things at people because of their politics?!?! Time to add "political party" to the list of protected classes.
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I'll bite...
The Changing Political Geography of COVID-19 Over the Last Two Years
A Pew Research Center analysis of official reports of COVID-19-related deaths across the country shows how the dynamics of the pandemic have shifted over the past two years.
www.pewresearch.org
In the spring of 2020, the areas recording the greatest numbers of deaths were much more likely to vote Democratic than Republican. But by the third wave of the pandemic, which began in fall 2020, the pattern had reversed: Counties that voted for Donald Trump over Joe Biden were suffering substantially more deaths from the coronavirus pandemic than those that voted for Biden over Trump. This reversal is likely a result of several factors including differences in mitigation efforts and vaccine uptake, demographic differences, and other differences that are correlated with partisanship at the county level....
During this third wave – which continued into early 2021 – the coronavirus death rate among the 20% of Americans living in counties that supported Trump by the highest margins in 2020 was about 170% of the death rate among the one-in-five Americans living in counties that supported Biden by the largest margins.
As vaccines became more widely available, this discrepancy between “blue” and “red” counties became even larger as the virulent delta strain of the pandemic spread across the country during the summer and fall of 2021, even as the totalnumber of deaths fell somewhat from its third wave peak.