• WashedOver@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    So this is about suing the agency out of existence?

    With the shenanigans that have gone on with Twitter since being bought with the not paying of staff severance, vendors, or landlords, it's getting like those that deal with Trump. I wonder if the Musk legal team will be paid?

    I'm all for reasonable free speech. It should fall within the guidelines of how yelling FIRE! in a movie theater has consequences if people are hurt by it. Misinformation falls into this category if it hurts the general public with a purposeful lack of moderation.

    It's not been a total lack of moderation… There are reports of moderation occurring over things Musk doesn't like and amplification of the things he wants (especially his tweets) in the algorithm that benefits him, so I'm not sure the defense of total free speech is a honest one here.

    At the end of the day the misinformation, and horrible inaccurate things shared on Fox News, Rumble and Truth social are much worse and they seem to get a free pass with the we are entertainment defense so none of this really seems to matter?

    If the lawsuit sees the light of day over the next several years it will be interesting how if it changes anything for the better or worse. Perhaps it won't matter by then as we will be in the next phase of the New American Order and going after one's internal enemies will be condoned as good patriotic practices…