Judd LegumThere are many problems with Apple's business model but reducing its advertising spend on Twitter is not an attack on free speech
Apple should support free speech.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1597305105837015040
joelitics@juddlegum the lightning connector is an attack on free speech, IMHO
Gay Dave - Find Me On Grindr!@juddlegum Lex Fridman is the most annoying IDW hanger on of them all. He's a non serious person who kicks people out of his reddit if they disagree with him about anything at all.
Patty Kimura@juddlegum
It's almost like advertisers are allowed to buy advertising where it best suits their financial interests and not just pay a "free speech" tithe to please Gumby Musk.
It's almost like advertisers are allowed to buy advertising where it best suits their financial interests and not just pay a "free speech" tithe to please Gumby Musk.
Fries Andersen@juddlegum Apple wants to be associated with hip new things, not Nazis.
Itzme2@juddlegum Titter is really trying to bully advertisers.
Myrha Cheval 🦆@juddlegum Folks like that keep confusing "sponsor-subsidized speech" with "free speech," as if one is entitled to the money it takes to run a public platform, whether it be a news site, a print publication or, in this case, a social media platform that has decided to jettison all forms of responsible content moderation in favor of one man's personal fickle (and increasingly dangerous) whims.
Litzz11@juddlegum I don't know what Elon is so worried about, I'm sure more $8 blue check marks will more than make up for the corporate advertising he's losing. 😂
Peter PrincipleMusk: "The 1st Amendment should FORCE big, powerful corporations to support objectionable speech with their ad $ -- unless it's MY company, in which case, Live Free or Die, bitches!
To call his "thinking" muddled would be an insult to mud.
peskypesky@juddlegum
Lex Fridman scares me.
Lex Fridman scares me.
Karen Duncan@juddlegum Exactly. Deciding where you want to spend your advertising money is not attacking or suppressing free speech. But trying to force a business to support you against their will could be viewed as compelled speech, something we are also protected from.
JenL@juddlegum Every time you see Musk tweet about free speech remember that he means “impunity for me, and arbitrary blocks for thee.”
JaimeC@juddlegum One would say Apple leaving Twitter is an example of them exercising their right to expressing themselves.
Matthew Scragg@juddlegum Apple hasn't given me a penny therefore they must hate free speech. Give me a break.
dingodog@scragg0x @juddlegum now that you mention it, they haven't given me a penny either! I'm being cancelled!
Nick@juddlegum why do the free speech people always seem to think other people should pay for their speech
Vivian Smotherman@juddlegum Twitter is not about free speech. and reducing an advertisement budget to a fascist institution is an action of free speech. I see though I'm not the only one to point this out.
Wolfgang 🎶= Me + Dog ☑️@juddlegum
Lex used to seem like he had potential but then he started turning into Sam Harris 2.0
Then he let #Kanye show him for a gullible, easily manipulated sophist.
Now he is pimping for #ElongatedMusk
Shame.
christian crumlish@juddlegum so the “intellectual dark web” misunderstands the first amendment, cool cool
Livelifejoyfully@juddlegum what’s happening on Twitter isn’t free speech. It’s license to engage in harassment and hate speech and I sincerely hope Apple refuses to participate or fund it.