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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 20:01:43 JST Aral Balkan

   “Musk’s vision of free speech is a limited one. He doesn’t mean the freedom to criticize him—that can get you banned or your verification revoked. He doesn’t mean the freedom to build competing platforms…He doesn’t mean the ability to organize online anti-fascist networks…He, like many on the online right, see free speech as a one way street—a guarantee they and people they like can say whatever troll-y nonsense they want no matter how racist, vile, or bigoted it is.”

   https://www.natebowling.com/a-teachers-evolving-mind/2023/4/17/being-choosy-about-online-spaces

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 20:37:54 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Stephen Darlington

     @sdarlington And it’s easy not to think too hard about things when you have loads of privilege.

   • Stephen Darlington (sdarlington@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 20:37:55 JST Stephen Darlington

     in reply to

     @aral It’s easy to be a “free speech absolutist” if you don’t think about it very hard.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 22:05:59 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Hyolobrika
     • bnmng

     @Hyolobrika @bnmng “You, and people like you”

     Do fuck off.

   • hyolobrika@berserker.town's status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 22:06:01 JST Hyolobrika

     in reply to

     • bnmng

     @aral
     This is true, in my experience. But also in my experience you, and people like you, want similar echo chambers.

     There's nothing really wrong with wanting echo chambers if you ask me. Just so long as you create them yourself and don't use de facto public spaces or subvert any existing private space whose inhabitants are perfectly happy with how it was run previously.
     @bnmng