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Elon Musk Grossly Misunderstands Free Speech

7 pointsby jzdziarskiover 2 years ago

4 comments

cinntaileover 2 years ago
Am I the only one who's really fucking tired of all the Elon Musk outrage porn on HN?
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Quequauover 2 years ago
Surely this is unsurprising. It seems like nearly everyone who makes a big deal about "Free Speech" hasn't really put the effort into fully and authentically understanding it.
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ZeroGravitasover 2 years ago
&gt; The Bill of Rights was designed intentionally to “prevent a sheep and two wolves from voting on what’s for dinner”.<p>I think this is backward. A lot of the &quot;tyranny of the majority&quot; talk at that time was about a minority of wolves (i.e. aristocrats) trying to balance more democracy (so they don&#x27;t get taken advantage of by a king) without going too far towards actual democracy (so they could still take advantage of the poor, enslaved, women and minorities).<p>So a closer analog would be stopping two sheep from voting to take lamb off the menu of the single wolf. Or slaves voting to end slavery.<p>Of particular historical note is the timing of laws and constitutional amendments that make taxation need a super-majority to change, i.e. giving a minority a veto.
sandworm101over 2 years ago
For many people &quot;free speech&quot; also refers to the rights of companies to determine which speech is supported on or through thier platforms. Beware any large shareholder who claims to be a free speech absolutest. They most likely think of free speech as a power to be yielded rather than a right to be protected.