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Enough Musk Spam
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I'm of two minds here... On the one hand Musk can suck it - but on the other I'm dismayed at how many people are jumping to defend a nation demanding the silencing of political opponents like this just because it injures Musk.
They can both be wrong. One side doesn't need to be "right" here.
Poking around I can’t find anything talking about the election being rigged at all, only older articles talking about Bolsanaro falsely claiming that the voting machines could be hacked and rigged.
The accounts that were requested to be suspended seem to have all been in relation to their own version of Jan. 6 and were spreading conspiracy and lies about the election. That’s a pretty major national security risk, honestly, if they’re trying to incite people to respond against a fairly elected government with violence.
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Free speech is all well and good but not everything that flaps out of someone’s gums is protected. Hate speech isn’t, defamation is a crime in most places, fraud is a real thing, etc. If these people are using their platform to heat the waters in an attempt to tear down a democratically elected government that’s no fucking bueno, my dude.
X also has a history of banning left-leaning accounts just because. He’s perfectly happy to silence political opponents for the right.
In the US it is. Yes it really is - just stop it with this. At least read the wikipedia article. I'm so sick of seeing this claim as the first response to any "free speech" discussion. Do you ever wonder how the Westborough Baptist Church still exists?? Daily Stormer?? Other hate groups???
Ahhh, the "national security risk" defense - always the safe haven of the totalitarian. This is how China justifies quieting dissidents to great effect. Speech that is dangerous to the government isn't always a bad thing. Imagine somebody who thinks your speech is dangerous is in power.
Letting the government decide which speech is dangerous to it or not is a very risky thing.
Oh you don't think so? What if that "democratically elected government" is Putin? Because guess how many votes he got in the last election.
The USA is less than 5% of the world's population. The USA's demented notions can get fucked, rather like they've already fucked the world.
We're doing just fine thanks.
Yes. Your recent elections aren't even slightly a hint of a profound social illness. Nor is the more than one daily mass shooting. All y'all are doin' just fine!
I'm sure your country is perfection.
It's a metric fuckton better than a country a hairsbreadth away from civil war and a populace with hair triggers, yes.
Yep. Truly it is a paradise with no problems at all.
https://www.learningleaders.com/insights/the-excluded-middle-fallacy-definition-examples
A.k.a. the Borderline Personality Disorder fallacy.
If you can lazily disparage a nation based on the bad things you read in the news then I can make lazy assumptions about your nation.
Surprise, Sparky! I've also been in your nation. (I've likely been in more nations than you have towns.)
My starkly negative opinions of the USA and its toxic attitudes and society comes from direct personal experience.