"Free Speech" Platforms
When Elon Musk bought 'Twitter', one of the reasons he apparently gave for the purchase was his belief that the platform didn't truly allow free expression. I have no idea if he was correct in his assessment of the service, never having actually used it, but as I understand it from other sources he was just talking out of his proverbial backside.
It was "left-wing" some say, and would impose "strict censorship" of mainstream political views, but something tells me that wasn't the case or, if it was, the incidence of it was exaggerated. I've come across a few "free speech platforms", and my interpretation of this expression is that those sites:
1. Have little, or no (usually no) moderation.
2. Are overrun by trolls, scammers, catfish and other rabble because of the lack of moderation.
3. Allow extremists, literal Nazis who claim that Hitler was a good guy, to spread their odious lies.
Free speech never has, nor will ever be, completely free. There will always be restrictions upon it, simply because there have to be. Speech, like everything else in life, has consequences. If you, for example, deliberately set out to destroy someone's reputation out of spite, you shouldn't be at all surprised and complain about it if that person hits back. Nor can you make false 000 (emergency) calls, or scream that there's a bomb in a crowded and confined space, like on an aeroplane.
Now, whenever I come across a site that promotes itself this way, as "allowing free speech", I avoid it altogether, because I do not want to be abused for simply disagreeing with someone about something. That's something I don't need in my life, the kind of toxic nonsense that just makes things worse. I don't believe in that kind of "free speech".
It was "left-wing" some say, and would impose "strict censorship" of mainstream political views, but something tells me that wasn't the case or, if it was, the incidence of it was exaggerated. I've come across a few "free speech platforms", and my interpretation of this expression is that those sites:
1. Have little, or no (usually no) moderation.
2. Are overrun by trolls, scammers, catfish and other rabble because of the lack of moderation.
3. Allow extremists, literal Nazis who claim that Hitler was a good guy, to spread their odious lies.
Free speech never has, nor will ever be, completely free. There will always be restrictions upon it, simply because there have to be. Speech, like everything else in life, has consequences. If you, for example, deliberately set out to destroy someone's reputation out of spite, you shouldn't be at all surprised and complain about it if that person hits back. Nor can you make false 000 (emergency) calls, or scream that there's a bomb in a crowded and confined space, like on an aeroplane.
Now, whenever I come across a site that promotes itself this way, as "allowing free speech", I avoid it altogether, because I do not want to be abused for simply disagreeing with someone about something. That's something I don't need in my life, the kind of toxic nonsense that just makes things worse. I don't believe in that kind of "free speech".
