I'd love it if someone shot elon musk in the nuts about 4 or 40 times...

@sarabee1995 (for the record I don't advocate for him or anyone getting shot, just explaining the source and reasoning of the "hate" he's getting)

@Elessar The "Freedom of Speech" refers to the prohibition against government restrictions, control, and/or limitations on speech (usually political speech).

So, the government should NEVER ask Twitter or the Washington Post or any other media outlet to publish or not publish some story or opinion or statement.

The "Freedom of Speech" has absolutely NOTHING to do with the actions of private entities.

If I own a newspaper, I have the absolute right to include or not include any content I choose without fear of the government coming and harassing me. Now if you own a competing newspaper with much greater readership and an opposing viewpoint, you would have every right to solicit a boycott of my paper and it's advertisers, etc. What you couldn't do is complain to the government and ask them to restrict my ability to publish.

Big difference between the government (legally must remain neutral) and private entities (free to express opinions anytime).

@sarabee1995 That form doesn't exist outside textbooks and constitutional texts either: think, if hypothetically another billionaire bought Twitter to spread jihadist messages, do you think the government wouldn't step in and have restricted him or his platform in any way, in the name of honoring his private freedom of speech?

Secondly, there's no public platforms that compete against the private ones, thus saying that a handful of billionaires that control 100% of the political discourse have every right to censor any talks they don't like equates in practical terms to saying you don't believe in (absolute) freedom of speech at all. If it were truly absolute, there'd be no difference between public and private, as there should be no different in type and purpose of speech.

You're focusing on the theoretical points completely disregarding the practical ones. If the country truly cared about people's freedom of speech, you'd have laws preventing private platforms to form monopolies or oligopolies, or likewise ensuring that every side gets equal time and exposure (guess which side killed those?). "Government mustn't tell billionaires who run social media how to policy their media" isn't freedom of speech, it's freedom to run propaganda machines.

@basilfawlty89 would you say you hate them, because of what the mainstream media tell you about them, or would you say say that you came to the conclusion, through your own research

@ididntknow my own research. I have no time for technofascism, Christofascism or authoritarianism.

@ididntknow I dislike them on their proven behaviour. It's revolting. Stomach churning.