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Comment by nostromo

> "freedom of speech" (I know that the first amendment only applies to government censorship, but Musk likes to pretend not to)

Freedom of speech is not the first amendment and vice versa. Freedom of speech is an ideal that applies to all people and all spaces, public and private, while the First Amendment only applies in America and to the government.

People think they sound smart when they say freedom of speech only applies to government censorship, but they actually sound ignorant of the concept's millennia-long history pre-dating the discovery of America entirely.

parent nostromo 4 years ago

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