Comment on "Free" Speech Absolutist™
sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 2 months ago
Elon is only a free speech absolutist in the sense that he’s absolutely free to censor speech he doesn’t like.
Comment on "Free" Speech Absolutist™
sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 2 months ago
Elon is only a free speech absolutist in the sense that he’s absolutely free to censor speech he doesn’t like.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Free speech absolutism quickly got hijacked by the early far-right of the internet. From dumb idea of “we should let everyone say whatever they want, words are just words”, it evolved into the switcharoo of the far-right doxxing and harassing its opponents, accusing them of “intolerance”, but when their opponents did the same, doxxing and harassment suddenly became a bad thing that must not be tolerated by anyone. Even mere criticism of the right became akin to the most brutal actions committed by state actors.
Innuendo Studios, when talking about the “You go high, we go low” tactic of the alt-right, he used the example of packing the court. In reality, the tactic is probably as old as Adolf Hitler accusing others of censorship for not giving him a platform.