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16 upvotes for calling for blocking websites, wtf has the world come to and wtf happened to "information wants to be free"
There's information, then there's misinformation, and then there's disinformation.
Everything of consequence Musk spews is the latter.
Him having an gigantic platform to do it with where he also gets to manipulate what others get to say doesn't set information free. It imprisons it.
Freedom of speech is not a freedom to lie.
I disagree. I despise Trump and Elon, but I think you should be allowed to say the dumbest shit anyone has ever heard as long as you aren't calling for violence.
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You've already established the concept, now we're just negotiating the threshold.
I think there is a huge difference between Musk expressing and pushing an opinion and Twitter doing the same.
Musk should be free to be an idiot, Twitter less so.
You can disagree as much as you want to, but that's the fact. "Freedom of speach" refers to freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. Not to "freedom to spread lies to achieve political gains"
Indeed, if you say something that is wrong, but you believe it's true then you should be protected.
But if you're knowingly lying? Not so much.
The first amendment will simply not allow you to scream "FIRE!" in a crowded theater.
This logic crumbles as soon as an authoritarian government decides what is true and false and does not like your honest opinion. There is huge potential for abuse of power.
Edit: This is a reply to everyone who replied to me, not just you.
Sadly it is something I've already considered and something that the people who rally against Fact Checkers bring up as a good point.
Who gets to decide what's true and what's a lie? Not that I think fact checking is currently used in this manner, but, it is one of those "The strawman might have a point" moments
I guess independently verified scientific facts could be an exception. If you are going against vaccinations for example it would equate to calling for violence in some sense, anyways.