Musk says he's a free speech absolutist

Is he seriously posting cringe like this?

My guy he posted about being banned from PoE2, a mostly PvE game, for cheating. Literal man child that cannot beat AI enemies.
- it shouldn’t be too surprising that he cheats in online games given that he cheats in pretty much every other aspect of his life as well
- The richest man on this planet. What the fuck are we doing
- I didn't even see that one, was it like super obviously "in just so good and amazing and smart they banned me for cheating"
Have you met the guy? (I'm sorry if you have)
That's all he does, no reason to get excited
- Depends, what do you do with the excitement? The fact that this is the news of the world that we get, that the state of the world is what it is right now?
  
  I disagree, I just don’t wish people took some more time to introspect as to what their senses show their surroundings to be, and how.
  
  I can see the British east india trading company saying the same shit you just said, but to Gandhi. I don’t mean it as an attack, just wandering thoughts.
He's posted way weirder stuff than this.
- I mean the Taylor Swift thing where he said he'd have her babies and protect her cats was pretty bad and I swear that isn't even close to the worst.
  
  However, I'm not on X though so I don't have to look at the weirdness.
He knows his audience
- A vote manipulation farm somewhere in Asia?

I'm not good at metaphors... Does this mean he's using "X" to shield us from free speech?

That’s exactly how the image reads to me, lol.
- I mean no, the shield would have to face the other way for it to be blocking free speech.
It is a good metaphor, just maybe not fpr the reasons he thinks

"Free speech" means "hate speech" when right-wingers say it.

That is the only thing free speech means to them. One sided uninterrupted and unchallenged propaganda.

Everything Musk says is a lie, just like his boyfriend, Trump.

If by “Free speech absolutist”, he means, “big fat fucking liar”, then I agree with his stupid fat ass.

Free speech absolutist

Whenever I hear that, I know the person is one of the following: bigot, fascist, liar, or so dumb they shouldn't have children.
- Or a combination thereof.
Considering the recent ruling that Twitter owns all of the account data, he could mean all these losers keep uploading their speech for free.

Your thoughts, your ideas, your speech - it was all free, you gave it away to Elon.
- Absolutely.

As long as he absolutely gets to decide which speech is free and which is very very expensive

This, exactly.

All right wingers that scream about freespeech are screaming for the same thing.

The freedom for them to say whatever they want, and the freedom to silence anyone who calls them out and proves them wrong.

In the context of this movie, Musk is Theron, forcing himself on the wife of the protagonist and taking all the gold.

That would be a valid description of him, yes
I think you're sleeping on the white supremacist glorification of the Spartans.

Fuckhead lies just like his orange catdaddy

Why the heck don't we just deport Musk to Texas and then secede Texas from the US?

"Secede"
- What happened to Mexico?
he's still rich though, he'd probably buy texas if we did that. Do you really want Musk to get his own country?
- He's already doing that.
  
  Both getting to control a country and buying Texas.

Poor fucker never did have a good grasp on reality.

Maybe Luigi has a brother?
- Is it Chuck Mangione?
- Mario mannore

I kinda hate how they want free speech but when someone they oppose says something that's also considered free speech yep it's blocked.

It's always free speech for me, not for you, and my free speech is the hateful kind, but it's not hateful, you're just woke for saying it is.
- It's just a joke... unless

At this rate, social media companies will start censoring Luigi images like China does Winnie the Pooh.

We all know the logical conclusion here is that elon is going to get the nuclear codes. He'll then hold the entire world hostage saying...

"I'm going to do a very cool dance soon. This is a dance that will make everyone want to be BEST friends with me and say, you are the coolest person I know, El-Man! Which is the nickname they'll give me and I'll have jackets made that say it. So I'm going to do this dance on television, I'm going to buy all of the networks that there are and air it simultaneously. Now, if I hear anyone laugh at the dance, which is serious and cool, or post something making fun of this dance on social media (which will again be a very cool dance) then I will incinerate the entire world in a thermonuclear holocaust, a world that mostly consists of my own children and ex wives because honey badger don't care - I'm rick bickh!!!" [Limp starfish jump]

Would be funny if chemists couldn't talk about cis and trans isomerisms anymore

Historians: "So during the Roman occupation of Cisalpine Gaul..."

X: "Cis alpine? What is this woke shit? You're banned!"

Elon, go back to Africa.

Fascist Henry Ford mk.2

So... Henry Ford 2.0.
- Yes but this one is also completely brain dead.
Henry Ford doesn't deserve to be compared to Elon the dipshit

Same free speech Putin practices.

I think he's mixing it up with abolitionist.

Musk is just another dipshit authoritarian, who thinks "speech" is reserved for people that matter (billionaires). He'll sue the ass off of anyone else whos speech he doesn’t like.

"The new Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach."

Elon Musk

He was never for free speech. Just claimed he was and somehow people ate it up just like they always do with everything else he claims. He said this less than a month after buying Twitter btw.

Whatever happened to Elon pulling plugs on critical servers and driving them in rental cars to Sacramento? Why isn’t Twitter dead yet? Did someone finally have the grown up talk?

Elon is busy turning X back into an echo chamber, except the pendulum has swung to the other side. It's a shame people find such solace in echo chambers -- intellectualism does not progress if you only speak with people you agree with. Indeed, it narrows conversation and thought so much it just turns into a circle jerk.

Guess what? The real world is nasty and dirty and you are never going to agree with everyone. A preschool isn't as safe a space as what Elon wants to (re)create.

I like the balance we've found on Lemmy. We can discuss some pretty conservative ideas, but there's zero intellectual value to transphobia or any other hate speech. People shouldn't be required to re-explain their right to exist every generation.

Censorship Speedrun any%. Less than 12 seconds to censor.

We're the rain

The free speech is also somehow a shield of all things. What will this guy ~~think of~~ buy next?

just change it out to hate speech and it's really accurate

"Wait, I meant abolitionist. I always get those two mixed up..."

Hmm... remember some recent event in NYC?

Why don't we pay our friend Elon a visit and [Redacted By lemmy.world Admins]

That approach to ~~censorship~~ moderation is far too common.

Unless the speech is "shooting CEOs is OK."

somebody who still has a twitter they won't mind seeing get yeeted into the nether (and possibly used for nefarious purposes or dastardly deeds)....

Jump over there and link whatever tweet he said that in; and post "Musk is a fucking fuckface Loser.. That guy who brags about how expensive his truck his because that's the only thing in his life that's impressive."

then please report back how long it takes to get yeeted.

you misspelled abolitionist

If musk is so free speech why would I have to give away data just to write something

Musk is pretty bad about this, but still not as bad as twitter was before he bought it.