mrneil@sh.itjust.works to Enough Musk Spam@lemmy.world · 11 months agoWon't someone think of the hate speech!?sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1286arrow-down124file-text
arrow-up1262arrow-down1imageWon't someone think of the hate speech!?sh.itjust.worksmrneil@sh.itjust.works to Enough Musk Spam@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square59fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarehttpjames@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up63arrow-down1·11 months agoWouldn’t criticising Twitter’s inefficient moderation be covered by “free speech”? It’s censorship under the guise of preservation.
minus-squareBrainsick@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up31·11 months ago“Free expression is most important!!! (…except when you criticize us!)”
minus-squarePunnyName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-211 months agoEven censorship is a form of free speech. Example: I used to be homeless in Los Angeles. During that time, an Occupy Wall Street protester wrote on the ground in chalk “fuck the police”. A passerby was upset at this, and they poured water over the “fuck”, erasing it. Both the protestor and the passerby had expressed themselves in their own way.
Wouldn’t criticising Twitter’s inefficient moderation be covered by “free speech”? It’s censorship under the guise of preservation.
“Free expression is most important!!! (…except when you criticize us!)”
Even censorship is a form of free speech.
Example: I used to be homeless in Los Angeles. During that time, an Occupy Wall Street protester wrote on the ground in chalk “fuck the police”.
A passerby was upset at this, and they poured water over the “fuck”, erasing it.
Both the protestor and the passerby had expressed themselves in their own way.