BTW: WTF is going on with Kanye West?
As for Elon, I think he is finding that "operational" free speech is harder than theoretical free speech.
It’s kind of a rite of passage for any new social media network. They show up, insist that they’re the “platform for free speech” without quite understanding what that actually means, and then they quickly discover a whole bunch of fairly fundamental ideas, institute a bunch of rapid (often sloppy) changes… and in the end, they basically all end up in the same general vicinity, with just a few small differences on the margin.
Some dudes are just plain wired for whack.As for Elon, I think he is finding that "operational" free speech is harder than theoretical free speech. I won't knock him on this, as he's still doing 1000% better than old twitter. I'll agree though, with a comment I read, that this might have been better handled from the "free speech" perspective with a warning label on the tweet, which would allow discussion.
Like the warning labels ewetwob slaps on anything not progressive narrative? Labels are bad mmkay. Modern jew stars.
Maybe there should "ratings" on twitter accounts like movies (G, PG, PG-13, R) and you can change your account settings to the level of "adult content" you want to see. What do you think?
No, like age ratings on movies.Grandma may want a PG account. Someone else might want an R rated account.
https://babylonbee.com/news/man-reads-tweet-he-disagrees-with-dies
And who applies the ratings? The obvious abuse is nonprogressive politics all get marked NC-17 no matter what to minimize the people who see them.
Good question. I don't know what would be best.The idea is reasonable though. If you can rate movies for sex, violence and language levels surely twitter accounts could be the same.
Between a rock and a hard placeThe left: You must ban people for inciting violence! Also the left: You can't ban people!Kanye West suspended after tweeting swastika symbol and people push Elon Musk on free speech https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/12/02/kanye-west-suspended-after-tweeting-swastika-symbol-and-people-push-elon-musk-on-free-speech/BTW: WTF is going on with Kanye West?
West wants to run for president in 24, which in my book indicates questionable mental health and at least proves he's a glutton for punishment. Regardless of his mental health or the claims by Musk that he incited violence, the "star of David/swastika" symbol he tweeted is actually a Hindu symbol: https://www.hinduamerican.org/blog/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-swastika/. As the twitchy article indicates, we can't know what transpired between Musk and West (who goes by "Ye" now) so we have to take Elon's word for it. West has always seemed pretty unbalanced to me, all the media attention is bound to mess him up even more.
Did you miss the part where Hitler invented microphones?
I didn't see any of the tweets other than what was in the twitchy article. Just going on my internet search for "hitler invented microphones" which indicates West made that claim at some time, it doesn't sound like inciting violence to me. Making stupid statements isn't suspension worthy material in my view. Neither is being delusional.
The idea is fundamentally censorship and thus it can't be reasonable. This is principle, not degree.
