So, he wants to make it so just criticizing Charlie Kirk is off limits, now?
Lol! Wut? I thought this guy told everyone he was a “free speech absolutist”. What a clown.
Elon Musk is trying to silence Microsoft employees who criticize Charlie Kirk
Submitted 1 month ago by along_the_road@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.theverge.com/news/777664/elon-musk-charlie-kirk-satya-nadella-fire
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Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
dmention7@midwest.social 1 month ago
Without exception, “free speech absolutists” just want to say a specific brand of horrid shit themselves without social blowback. It never applies to free speech as a legal concept, and certainly never applies to speech they disagree with.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Without exception? No, I don’t think that’s true, it’s just the loudest ones, unfortunately.
For genuine free speech supporters like me, this is a problem because it makes the phrase “free speech” look bad and thereby contributes to a decline in it.
parlaptie@feddit.org 1 month ago
His stance on free speech has been well established for a long time now. He champions free speech so long as it’s his speech. Any speech that disagrees with him is, in fact, itself an affront to free speech.
Chozo@fedia.io 1 month ago
Shut the fuck up, Elon. We'll be celebrating your death, as well.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I’ll celebrate his even more
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Maybe that why he wants to stop this, in the hopes someone will do the same for him.
cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Ding ding ding!
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
wE hAtE cAnCeL cUlTuRe aNd lOvE fReE sPeEcH
herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Elon Musk hates free speech.
Aquaphobi@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
How does … he… have any authority over Microsoft employees… you know what I’ll just read the article
herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Elon Musk controls a rabid lynch-mob. That is how he has any authority.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
*Free speech **absolutist
*only available via subscription
**absolutely horseshit
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 month ago
This is really a much more interesting article:
theverge.com/…/charlie-kirk-death-social-media-ja…
I was going to quote segments but it’s really worth reading the whole thing. Senators shitting all over the first amendment and quotes from Charlie Kirk shitting all over them in return.
SebaDC@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
This!
Thanks for sharing. I wanted to pick up some quotes, but holy shit!
theangriestbird@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Elon Musk should be next IMO.
andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
OY
This fuckin’ timeline
Duplexity@beehaw.org 1 month ago
That means he’s very afraid
Musk, name people around the world would perforate you if they had the chance. Better hide in your bunker
MrSulu@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Perhaps if he stoepped into Charlie’s shoes…
johannes@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl 1 month ago
I always thought i was left, but seeing how a lot of people gleefully react to someone’s assasination makes me wonder if i’m actually left.
I don’t mourn Charlie Kirk’s passing, i never liked him. But i certainly don’t celebrate his murder either. Anyone who does should be put in a mental asylum as far as i’m concerned. They certainly have mental health problems.
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 1 month ago
If you’re basing whether or not you’re “left” on anecdotal evidence of some leftists celebrating his death, you probably weren’t very left to begin with.
johannes@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl 1 month ago
Fair enough. I suppose i should call myself “center”. Neither left nor right.
Vodulas@beehaw.org 1 month ago
You don’t understand why people would celebrate the death of someone that wanted them dead?
anachronist@midwest.social 1 month ago
I always thought i was left, but seeing how a lot of people on the left gleefully react to someone’s assasination makes me wonder if i’m actually left.
I don’t mourn Benito Mussolini’s passing, i never liked him. But i certainly don’t celebrate his murder either. Anyone who does should be put in a mental asylum as far as i’m concerned. They certainly have mental health problem
johannes@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl 1 month ago
Comparing Charlie Kirk to Mussolini…
Yeah, i stand with my comment. You need better health care.
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 month ago
I feel like you but I also feel kirk should be treated a bit by his own preachings. He said empathy is weakness and bad policy and not a virtue. He said gun deaths are worth it for the second amendment. He said families should bring their children to witness executions. All these things he said are embodied in his fate. If anyone ever died in a way that embraces their own words it is him.
johannes@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl 1 month ago
What you mentioned is exactly why i didn’t like him. But i also don’t support the death penalty, and i firmly believe in due process. He got the death penalty without a fair trial. For me it’s as simple as that. And that’s not how democracy works in my book.
He was a conservative right wing political activist, but some people are comparing him to Mussolini even. Like WTF! And just because he didn’t believe in empathy doesn’t mean i shouldn’t either.
Fo i think the world is better without certain people? Sure! Do i think assasinating them is the way to go? No.
And yeah, i’m a gay man. I’m well aware of his views about that. I choose to be civilized though.
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Confused idiots like you will be the end of the USA.
68silver@beehaw.org 1 month ago
What has this have to do with technology? Wishing someone else is the next one.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Ted Cruz: Getting a little hot in here, isn’t it Bernie?
Bernie Sanders: Only for MAGAs, Ted.
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 1 month ago
People really don’t like either of those guys.
Musk should go into hiding.
There’s no coming back from where he is.
Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Free speech…so long as we agree.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I wonder how is the dumpster fire going over at bluesky ?
How is Rasputin handling it ?
Anything we can gloat at here from the fediverse ?AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 1 month ago
Awful bait TheVerge. Appropriate headline:
Gamergate/Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda/RMVP 2.0 want to control Blizzard gooners from free speech&press.⛓️💥
Mark Kern hasn’t tasted a .305, because he lives in best🇰🇷.
⛓️💥
Brokes link to prevent DDoS.
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 1 month ago
“I believe the rights enshrined in the 1st amendment applies to everybody I agree with.”
Nougat@fedia.io 1 month ago
First Amendment guards against state repercussions for speech, with exceptions. Careful not to conflate the legal and colloquial usages.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 month ago
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Which is why everyone needs to get off of twitter. Especially government accounts.