There is a limit to speech in any civilized society. The MAGAs have it wrong. It is easy to see the conspiracy to power by Musk, or whatever name he is these days. He, himself practices censorship by taking away memberships on X by people whom he disagrees.
There are a couple of things going on that is nonsensical. First, Trump claims to have RESTORED free speech with his executive order of which he said, “Thus is a big thing.” As if he did everyone a favor.
That is a lie.
Freedom of speech in the USA was never an issue, however, the return of political hate speech has returned on social media and should not have at all.
Zuckerberg is wrong.
The monitoring on Facebook was correct and served to DEESCALATE political hate speech. It was wrong not to codify it into law.
Now, this free speech thing is a policy verbalized by Rubio. (Click here) This is the U.S. State Department. It engages in all sorts of interesting speech. The idea a diplomatic corp can’t practice done dirt of censorship when necessary is ludicrous.
Hostile work environments MUST suppress the urge to engage in sexual harassment. I think this entire free speech mess is not about open communication, it appears to be about hate speech and the oppression it brings.
When Trump makes funny names up like “Marco Rubio has small hands.” That is political hate speech. It is not only political hate speech it implies sexual judgement as well. It is bullying. Because people are caught off balance by an adult engaging in bullying in full public view, that doesn’t mean he should get away with it. Rubio could have sued for defamation of character as the implications of that statement were special in nature. I think people, civilized people, are finding themselves flat footed in responding to such bullying. We expect more civilized behavior from our children than we do of Trump.
A society has a right to sane social environments. The Preamble of the USA Constitution states clearly, “…insure domestic tranquility.. “. To tolerate political hate speech is completely wrong and dangerous.
Guillain wants to be able to engage in political hate speech. He is being held accountable for defamation in the amount of &158 million dollars. That is what the Plutocrats don’t like. They believe they should be able to conduct themselves as they please without penalty.
