Free speech means that the AP is free to report the fact that false claims about the election abound on Twitter. It also means that private organizations like Twitter can choose whether or not to allow such false claims, or whether to include disclaimers on such false claims.
Maybe you could explain to us (preferably somewhere else, like in your Pit thread, because this thread is becoming all about you again) how democracy is supposed to survive under your concept of “Free Speech” where there is no distinction between fact and fiction, between truth and contrived propaganda, and no ability to make such a distinction. You know, like in Orwell’s 1984. You know what an actual democracy is, right? The system of government where citizens who know what they’re doing determine the government and its policies. Note my use of the word “know” here. It’s the root of the word “knowledge”. In your Orwellian world it’s indistinguishable from “lies and propaganda”.
Almost forgot, what with Elmo’s ever shifting definition of free speech absolutism; added irony for defending Elmo’s ‘free speech’ on the heels of him silencing the Turkish government’s political opposition.
I assume you’ll be lodging a strong objection to the fascist suppression of the free speech statement “These pills are too Vicodin, Percocet, and Xanax!”:
Monaco said the counterfeit pills are designed to look like regular prescription drugs — Vicodin, Percocet, Xanax or other medicines…
Elmo wanted to hire an unlicensed plumber who would install a bathroom without work permits next to his office which he was sleeping in, because he didn’t want to have to wake up his bodyguards in the middle of the night when he needed to pee.
LOL … Elmo should have a fine time renting office space in the future. My first thought was of a different movie, that his principles of tenancy were inspired by the Delta Tau Chi fraternity in Animal House, except they actually paid their rent. Elmo doesn’t:
Twitter’s new leadership deliberately, specifically, and repeatedly announced their intentions to breach contracts, violate laws, and otherwise ignore their legal obligations … “Elon doesn’t pay rent” … for Musk, the fact that Twitter was legally or contractually obligated to pay a particular sum would be irrelevant to the decision of whether to actually pay it – that Musk operated on a “zero cost [basis]”.
I understand this man wants to run a full-service internet bank.
What makes this especially interesting is that Elmo – in his own words – very explicitly doesn’t give a shit about anything. It’s rare that one can actually watch psychosis in motion, almost in real time. Lots of material here for future case studies in psychiatry school.
You would think so, but Trump never had trouble finding contractors to work him despite being notorious for not paying them.
The sad reality is, and we see this with @Sam_Stone, is there is a perception that the rich are worthy. And the poor are unworthy. So society bends over backwards to cater to the wealthy, even though they need the least catering too.
I know you know this, but I just find it so bizarre. Elon Musk must be a great man because he’s so rich, just ignores so much about how people can and do become wealthy. Musk being no exception.
I’m sure that Trump has had more than his share of contractors who want nothing to do with him, especially in the legal profession where the risk isn’t just not getting paid, but potentially being sanctioned by the courts. Yet he still gets them, because even if 9 out of 10 turn him down, 1 out of 10 is plenty. Elmo is likely to find himself in the same position. It may not be economically fatal to him, but it’s a major nuisance. Elmo may have to set up a never-ending series of shell corporations to do his renting for him.
What’s more fun to think about is when the entity whose trust he’s lost is not just the population of potential contractors, but the population of potential business partners and the general population of potential customers. Whatever the future may hold, Elmo is now widely regarded as an irresponsible and unpredictable fool who should be of great concern to anyone whose fate or fortune is in his wildly erratic path.
I don’t think socioeconomic status makes anyone ‘worthy’ or ‘unworthy’. You don’t seem to understand my thinking or that of other conservative/libertarians.
It’s simply this: Freedom is everyone’s right. You don’t lose it when you are poor OR rich. I never think in terms of who is ‘worthy’, just what their rights are. It’s the height of arrogance to assign ‘worth’ to people you don’t know based on some characteristic, immutable or not.
The idea that people in politics should assign ‘worth’ to people then treat them unequally because of their differing ‘worth’ is repugnant. Everyone should reject that.