Submitted 10 months ago by Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
Compare arab spring where Egypt shut down its internet and Twitter did everything it could to ensure messages got through…
To bowing down to authoritarian bullshit and locking down dissenting and potentially dissenting accounts.
You know, from the free speech absolutist.
Yeah some time ago I used to respect these companies I remember when Google condemned the Egyptian government’s actions in 2011 and one of the very popular activists in the revolution was the head of marketing in Google MENA. But now the truth has never been more obvious to me. Individuals may or may not care but corporations will never care.
Free speech absolutism in action
WhyTF is anyone still on X?
There are no other alternatives, don’t you see? Not a single one. 😢
Meanwhile Fediverse:
This is why people need to move to the fediverse. To stop the government from shutting down people’s accounts.
Preaching to the choir my fellow lemming
no listen, the fediverse is good! you should try the fediverse!!
It’s because of stuff like this that we need to shamelessly promote the Fediverse.
Wasn’t it one of Musk’s stated reasons for buying twitter to prevent exactly this?
Yea but he wouldn’t just lie right? It’s after 2014 so his cars drive themselves and actually pay their owners money now right?
Yeah, it would be insane not to buy a Tesla self-driving taxi, they pay for themselves
Yup. When a right-wing government asks, he complies. When a left-wing government does, he sues.
To be fair the only reason he actually went through with buying Twitter was because he was forced to.
The greatest free speech absolutist!
Free for me, not for thee
Heil Trump. I wish him that he gets what he deserves.
vegeta@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Free Speech Absolutist^TM^
daddy32@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well it’s not free speech if it is not nazi propaganda.