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Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands (www.independent.ie)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As Elon himself said in the early days of the Twitter takeover, “free speech does not mean free reach”.

I understood that to mean "I want to claim I'm a 'free speech absolutist' while actually only promoting things I agree with"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In concept I agree with him on that. I support your right to say awful shit, but I am not going to spread that message to others. Where Elon lost the plot was thinking of Twitter as a public square. It's a nice thought, but it requires the whole platform to be 100% neutral and unbiased. So it's all good to call Twitter the public square, but that's a lot harder to take seriously when the guy in charge of policing the square is heavily biased.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

it’s all good to call Twitter the public square, but that’s a lot harder to take seriously when the guy in charge of policing the square is heavily biased

I agree. A public town square is good but like you say, it should be neutral, and Xitter is not that.

On the censorship thing, maybe it is okay if an online messaging website bans certain content, like pro-suicide content, or pro-terrorism content, etc. You could call that censorship but you could also call it safety. I don't think anybody really believes in 100% free speech anyway, because if a person shouts "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre, when there is actually no fire, and it causes a stampede which kills people, should we not punish their speech because they're free to say it?

Freedom of political speech is important, but maybe there should be some fundamental rules about certain types of speech.