- How is censoring a politician “standing up for free speech”?
- “full oh shit” = not a “free speech absolutist”. “free speech absolutist” implies that you will not censor any speech no matter what.
Comment on X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkish opposition
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day agoX restricted Imamoglu’s account in Turkey complying with a legal request by Turkish authorities who cited national security and public order concerns.
x.com/GlobalAffairs/status/1920426409358455081
“full of shit” = “standing up for free speech against governments that are trying to censor political opponents” ?
Ulrich@feddit.org 19 hours ago
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 11 hours ago
You don’t seem to understand how the legal system and governments work.
They issued a legal request to censor his account in Turkey. Failure to do so would result in severe consequences for X, such as having to take X offline for all of Turkey.
X complied with the law and are challenging the censorship request in court, the only place that has the power to overrule the government.
Ulrich@feddit.org 11 hours ago
You don’t seem to understand how the legal system and governments work.
I am not a lawyer but I do understand how jurisdictions work. Elon is not in theirs.
Failure to do so would result in severe consequences for X, such as having to take X offline for all of Turkey.
If he were a “free speech absolutist” as he claims, he would let them.
CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
How is what you quoted “standing up” to anything? Am I missing something?
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day ago
Clearly. Did you not look at the link that I posted? I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you might have taken the quoted text and the link as being the same thing, when they are 2 separate things.
The X link is a post from X Global Government Affairs regarding this Turkey censorship situation. Some of the text from it: