Free speech absolutism at work
this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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Fascist speech absolutism at work
To Der Elon that's the same thing.
It’s frustrating that we knew he was full of shit when he was saying it. And now the evidence is showing it is bullshit. And it’s like it doesn’t even matter.
They know they can do that sort of shit because they hold the power. They can blatantly and unconvincingly lie, their followers will regurgitate those lies, but neither of them really believe them. They are just posturing and having fun with words, just like fascists always have done.
Never believe that [fascists] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The [fascists] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
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Nazi platform.
Make sure to stop clicking on Nazi links when people post them. No matter how bad you want to see someone "prank" someone or cry about their perceived persecution.
We need to stop making a Nazi platform important enough that it hurts democratic politicians when they lose access because of the Nazi in charge of said platform.
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No one on X should expect anything better
If they're still on Xitter it means they approve of this
Anyone still on Xitter is part of the problem.
Delete it.
Seems like a good opportunity to frame Musk and Erdogan as allies.
You're saying it's not related to musk's political views?
No. How did you reach that conclusion?
Because framing is usually done in bad faith, when i read that i read 'they arent allies, the media wants you to think that'
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But Elon has no clue why everyone thinks he's a nazi
The speech free platform continues to remove speech.
You can speak freely about whatever suits elon :-)
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Has Musk ever met a dictator he doesn't like?
I think elon called Lula a dictator...and called the UK a dictatorship. That makes it even more obvious what he's doing.
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Just do like I do. I blocked x.com quite a while back now. Along with several other trash sites like it.
I used to use it to find out information on local emergencies and stuff but now you have to log in and they don’t allow search or whatever so I never use it… I have a few accounts there but haven’t used them since at least x if not before I should probably mass delete my accounts there next time something happens
Just a friendly gesture among right-wing autocrats.
Xitler.
There needs to be some sort of unblockable self-hosted broadcast system where users can spin up their own cloud hosted instance by entering a username and password and choosing one of hundreds of providers for a small fee, or self hosted instance as quickly and easily as installing a single app on an android phone. These with act just like websites, but with a common protocol and API so they can communicate with each other and with clients with no specific add-on. Then, Turkey or whoever could block Turkish ISPs from fulfilling that request, but anyone else could still access the instance in their client as long as their own instance doesn't block it.
Hostable on a phone, a windows PC, Linux PC, self-hosted VM, cloud rented VM, whatever. And easily portable from one place to another.
Sure, uptime and reliability would suffer, EG when PC is turned off, but that's acceptable to gain resilience against ISP, central services like google and Facebook and twitter, and government interference.
I have designed a system to do this, using very reliable existing protocols and programming frameworks, I just don't have the time or money to invest to make it happen.
Hah, I designed one as well!
I think the flow of information has to be fundamentally different.
In mine, people only receive data directly from people they know and trust in real life. This makes scaling easy, and makes it impossible for centralized entities to broadcast propaganda to everyone at once.
I described it at freetheinter.net if you're interested
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I thought they didn't block political figures... Guess the muskrat just meant the figures he agrees with...
Free-speech absolutists gonna free-speech.
Reason # 3,487 to get off/stop paying attention to X, the 'everything app'.
One more reason to not put all of your social media eggs in the same basket.
He should go to Bluesky and get blocked there as well.
I was gonna say. Dude better go to the actual fediverse if he wants a reliable platform that wont be instantly taken down again.
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Elon following Turkish censorship
He was prisoned on corruption charges before, which were just government funds being moved
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