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Stephen Breyer's Ice Cream's avatar

+1 for the link to Defector. Subscribe to both!

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Dean C.'s avatar

As with many things, right-wing ghouls don't >really< understand what is meant by "free speech" and "censorship", but Musk had stumbled across an actual factoid that many don't think about: Freedom of speech does not automatically mean freedom to broadcast. Of course, this is cloaked in his "FREE SPEEECH UBER ALLES!!!! <except when it personally affects me, then go pound sand on Telegraph>" hypocrisy, which is entertaining in a "You Goddamned Grifter--go con someone else for a change!" kind of way, and I would probably have a different perspective if I used Twitter. Of course, the >not dumbass< way of banning folk you just don't like is to sotto voce change the TOS (which is always liable to change without notice) at about 0400 EST on a Saturday then quietly ban each of the reporters over a week or two on spurious violation of TOS grounds. JESUS CHRIST, ELON--THIS SHIT ISN"T DIFFICULT!!! HARDEN UP, YOU CREEPY FUCKER!!!

Concur about Defector. I could not care less about sports, but I'm appreciative enough of the writing that I'm an Accomplice. Or whatever that yearly level is...

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