Yeah, it's true that he isn't the first to say this. I remember Brian Stelter saying the exact same words, and didn't expect Musk to say it even if he wasn't going to, say, unban Scott Ritter. (Not that I'm holding my breath, but hypothetically: if Ritter got unbanned one of these days, or Robert Malone, or anyone else previously censored for criticizing the narrative around Ukraine/Covid/whatever the Current Thing was, would that be something you think Musk would deserve credit for? Even a sliver of credit?)
Anyway, as you once wrote, freedom of speech without the freedom to be heard (or "reach") is about as valuable as the right to shout your opinions into an empty hole in the ground.
(I wrote this comment before finishing the article but after doing a CTRL-F for "hole" and thinking "Okay, it isn't there, she didn't repeat the analogy, which means I can do it without being superfluous." And then I got to the "soundproof room" part. I gotta be more patient and read the whole thing more often... 😔)
The reason I'm surprised that he not only thought this was a good idea but actually went and stated it to everyone in those terms is because if he's trying to be different from the jerkoffs who say that then he shouldn't repeat their statement verbatim. Also, if he's only *pretending* to be different from those jerkoffs then he *still* shouldn't repeat what they say verbatim, because when he does that it makes the mask slip or maybe fall off altogether.
"Freedom of speech but not freedom of reach"
Yeah, it's true that he isn't the first to say this. I remember Brian Stelter saying the exact same words, and didn't expect Musk to say it even if he wasn't going to, say, unban Scott Ritter. (Not that I'm holding my breath, but hypothetically: if Ritter got unbanned one of these days, or Robert Malone, or anyone else previously censored for criticizing the narrative around Ukraine/Covid/whatever the Current Thing was, would that be something you think Musk would deserve credit for? Even a sliver of credit?)
Anyway, as you once wrote, freedom of speech without the freedom to be heard (or "reach") is about as valuable as the right to shout your opinions into an empty hole in the ground.
(I wrote this comment before finishing the article but after doing a CTRL-F for "hole" and thinking "Okay, it isn't there, she didn't repeat the analogy, which means I can do it without being superfluous." And then I got to the "soundproof room" part. I gotta be more patient and read the whole thing more often... 😔)
That saying is as fascist as any other policy.. Not that I'm surprised but again false hope is thrown around to appease the colosseum crowd.
The reason I'm surprised that he not only thought this was a good idea but actually went and stated it to everyone in those terms is because if he's trying to be different from the jerkoffs who say that then he shouldn't repeat their statement verbatim. Also, if he's only *pretending* to be different from those jerkoffs then he *still* shouldn't repeat what they say verbatim, because when he does that it makes the mask slip or maybe fall off altogether.