I've gotten a lot of responses to that Substack piece about leaving Twitter. Many are positive but some are negative. A few are saying "oh so you think free speech is nasty?"
What kind of stupid question is that? Of course I do. The Nazis marching at Skokie were nasty. All sorts of speech is nasty. Supporting free speech doesn't mean reserving judgment about it, you imbecile. It means not using the state to suppress it.
@Popehat The people using the 'you must hate free speech' nonsense are part of the problem. No one leaving Twitter hates free speech, we hate the lack of content moderation and the sheer viciousness of right wing trolls that have been emboldened.
Musk himself said that freedom of speech is different from freedom of reach, but so far that seems to have merely been a mealy-mouthed excuse in the face of fleeing advertisers which was entirely an empty platitude.
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