Comment by drak0n1c
1 year ago
It's a private platform. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences. [XKCD showing affected pundits the door] https://xkcd.com/1357/
1 year ago
It's a private platform. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences. [XKCD showing affected pundits the door] https://xkcd.com/1357/
You may be trying sarcasm here, but the "free speech absolutists" this argument was originally deployed against insisted such a right should not exist, and that freedom of speech meant the government should privatize social media and force platforms to publish content against their will, and make content moderation illegal.
However no one here is claiming Musk doesn't or shouldn't have the right to run Twitter (I still refuse to call it X and will die on this hill) however he likes, rather people are just pointing out that he's a hypocrite and an asshole.