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Are you saying that limiting freedoms via acts of the state legislature is somehow more egregious than doing so via control of the media, social media and public discourse?
Are you saying that limiting freedoms via acts of the state legislature is somehow more egregious than doing so via control of the media, social media and public discourse?
What control? Who has this control?
Laws passed by the state can have their constitutionality challenged in the courts. What recourse does one have when hounded from their careers for questioning progressive orthodoxy?
Hounded by whom? If it's other people on Twitter, that's <I>their</I> free speech. Of course laws are worse than the opprobrium of society. You cannot prevent society/a segment of society from venting their displeasure at you without taking away their rights.
And what is the point of trying to quantify whether one is worse than the other? Are we so tribal we can't acknowledge both are bad without having to argue that "your side is worse?"
Yes, we are, if we're saying there's any kind of equivalence between legal threats to the First Amendment and social disapproval. The one is protected activity. The other is, by it's very nature, a violation of the very amendment we're discussing.
So Elon and Twitter
15/04/2022 04:56:10 PM
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I don't get the adulation some direct towards Elon Musk
15/04/2022 05:34:52 PM
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I wrote things but let me give a simple answer to your specific question
16/04/2022 08:26:47 PM
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I don't know much about twitter
15/04/2022 07:55:16 PM
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The perception on Twitter is that he is a conservative icon
15/04/2022 08:19:06 PM
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I'm curious
18/04/2022 07:43:40 PM
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I believe all such rights must apply to everyone or they are meaningless.
18/04/2022 08:15:40 PM
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Yes, but...
19/04/2022 01:46:30 AM
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That's an interesting aside
19/04/2022 02:17:31 AM
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Not quite sure what the courts have to do with this
19/04/2022 04:17:48 AM
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I guess I misunderstood you
19/04/2022 04:52:03 AM
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Re: I guess I misunderstood you
20/04/2022 01:31:44 AM
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That is the thing about human nature, we willful choose to blind ourselves "somewhat"
20/04/2022 02:09:20 AM
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That is the thing about human nature, we willful choose to blind ourselves "somewhat"
20/04/2022 02:09:21 AM
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What is your point?
19/04/2022 01:49:51 PM
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Re: What is your point?
20/04/2022 01:30:34 AM
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My thoughts, and I implore Mookie to interject.
18/04/2022 08:42:42 PM
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I'd be curious on your thoughts on the Canadian trucker convoy...
21/04/2022 07:32:42 PM
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You mean their right to cripple an entire city and harass its inhabitants for weeks? *NM*
21/04/2022 09:14:19 PM
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Truck rights are human rights?
22/04/2022 02:38:06 PM
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Truckers are not trucks, they are drivers of trucks...
22/04/2022 08:25:24 PM
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So that happened. *NM*
25/04/2022 07:53:26 PM
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Yeah it did. A win for being able to freely speak (eventually that is) *NM*
26/04/2022 12:12:09 AM
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They paved paradise and put up a parking lot/With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot *NM*
26/04/2022 06:19:17 PM
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Don't it always seem to go / That you don't know what you've got / Till it's gone *NM*
26/04/2022 06:22:02 PM
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who's driving the big yellow taxi? *NM*
26/04/2022 06:55:31 PM
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We are all driving the big yellow taxi, and that is kind of a problem
26/04/2022 07:27:08 PM
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I have to admit, it's extremely amusing...
30/04/2022 05:40:19 PM
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Is it?
30/04/2022 10:53:50 PM
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None of this is amusing…
01/05/2022 06:33:18 AM
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It was not the first time
01/05/2022 02:50:36 PM
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Bill Maher weighing in Friday night on Twitter and referencing the Babylon Bee.
01/05/2022 05:02:32 PM
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Can I ask Bill Maher to leave my place of Business when he is being an asshole?
01/05/2022 07:12:51 PM
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He's a comedian. His job is making some people uncomfortable.
01/05/2022 09:55:23 PM
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And twitter like bars are allowed to determine who is on their website
01/05/2022 10:56:04 PM
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Elon Musk also said he wants to eliminate bots on Twitter.
01/05/2022 11:29:45 PM
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Should people be allowed to call people Groomers on twitter
01/05/2022 11:48:48 PM
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Should people be allowed to call people *insert offensive word* on twitter?
02/05/2022 06:47:01 PM
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I am skipping most of what you wrote
02/05/2022 07:02:56 PM
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So you are OK with "groomer," then?
02/05/2022 09:16:25 PM
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Wow you made lots of leaps of faith plus logic which I am not sure you are aware you did
02/05/2022 09:33:14 PM
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Looking forward to it
02/05/2022 10:09:22 PM
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Do you still want a response?
16/05/2022 06:09:41 PM
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Totally up to you
16/05/2022 07:20:11 PM
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Ruins the *nice* for we must continue the threadjack even if it goes past 69 replies
16/05/2022 07:53:05 PM
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there is a big difference
02/05/2022 07:12:37 PM
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Mookie I am going to ask you a question
02/05/2022 08:25:56 PM
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Ban?
03/05/2022 01:49:54 PM
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What lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple.”
03/05/2022 03:27:42 PM
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Wish granted
29/07/2022 09:21:10 PM
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So this Jaimee Michell lady
29/07/2022 11:48:48 PM
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Huh...
30/07/2022 12:05:00 AM
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If there's something strange in your neighborhood … I ain't afraid of no ghost
30/07/2022 12:13:46 AM
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You're clearly confusing things, perhaps intentionally so
01/05/2022 10:23:06 PM
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Tom you know as of right now Twitter is not a common carrier.
01/05/2022 10:51:23 PM
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I'm sorry Roland, but that's just not true...
01/05/2022 05:03:17 PM
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Use google search and search for articles prior to March 15, 2022.
01/05/2022 07:25:17 PM
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