(04-19-2022 04:14 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(04-19-2022 03:56 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(04-19-2022 12:44 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  I just wasn't familiar with a concerted effort from the left to suppress free speech on twitter.

Really? There were numerous conversations about it on this forum?

I read mention of the Twitter/Musk issue on the forum. I seem to recall some surmising that the left would be up in arms about Musk "running" a powerful social network. I just don't recall seeing a concerted effort from the left pushing against free speech on Twitter (again... certainly extremists might be shouting about it but I'm talking about a general leftist opinion.

Can you point me to the area where there were articles posted here that outlined that?

See below....

(04-20-2022 09:33 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Here's something for ya, 93

Linking only the above for brevity.

OF COURSE the left won't say they are against free speech. That would be political suicide. What they will do is precisely what they have done with Trump and now it seems, Green... where they take something they say and either misquote, misrepresent or misapply it to imply some version of 'hate speech' and then argue that free speech doesn't include 'hate'. They also change definitions of words like 'hate' to suggest anything that doesn't support their goals. If you're against illegal immigration, you 'hate' brown people. If you're against defunding the police or reparations, you 'hate' black people. If you are against men competing as women in sports, you 'hate' trans persons. One of the more amusing ones to me is the one about gay marriage. Like many of these other issues, the right didn't care about them in 1970 because NOBODY cared about them in 1970. Even they weren't interested in getting married. In the 1990's even the left was generally against it including the then President Clinton and his wife, Hillary. since then, most of the left (and large swaths of the right as well) have 'evolved' on the issue and only a relative few have an issue with it... and of course that can't be tolerated. It's 'hate' to still support something that the majority of your party doesn't... but that was what almost EVERYONE supported for thousands of years.

To me its like those who dislike astroturf or aluminum bats in baseball. You're entitled to that opinion and to avoid them yourself if you choose, but the laws say you can do it. The left doesn't want such unpopular opinions to have a voice... even in Georgia... so what do they do? They call it 'hate' and seek to ban or remove it.

The Musk example is perfect in that the biggest reason the left is against it is that they fear he would 'un-ban' Trump... so they come in now with this 'power of the wealthy' argument... ignoring that Zuckerberg has the same issue with Facebook.... and they seem fine with that.... in part because he 'plays ball' with them.