Free speech is when you let people say controversial things.
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Free speech is when you let people say controversial things.
Free speech is not when the world’s richest man builds a CSAM generator, hooks it up to the world’s largest public photo database, and gives 4chan a subscription service.
I’ve written thousands of words defending people’s right to be wrong on the internet.
I don’t need thousands of words for this. I have eight: what the fuck is wrong with these assholes.
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Free speech is when you let people say controversial things.
Free speech is not when the world’s richest man builds a CSAM generator, hooks it up to the world’s largest public photo database, and gives 4chan a subscription service.
I’ve written thousands of words defending people’s right to be wrong on the internet.
I don’t need thousands of words for this. I have eight: what the fuck is wrong with these assholes.
Perhaps my favourite 'Musk and Free Speech' moment, the one to be shared with the class, is when he sought to legally compel advertisers to buy time on his garbage fire social media app, after it transpired that advertisers don't like their ads being associated with Nazis.
And advertising is the most banal, empty, facile form of speech, but by compelling groups to provide representation on his platform it forever showed that free speech, actually free, is not something Musk will ever support.
Which makes his supporters trying to claim CSAM as a first amendment thing... just ring a little more hollow. (Also? Ew.)
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Free speech is when you let people say controversial things.
Free speech is not when the world’s richest man builds a CSAM generator, hooks it up to the world’s largest public photo database, and gives 4chan a subscription service.
I’ve written thousands of words defending people’s right to be wrong on the internet.
I don’t need thousands of words for this. I have eight: what the fuck is wrong with these assholes.
https://www.axios.com/2017/12/14/koch-tries-its-hand-at-venture-capital-1513277500
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html
The tech industry has been handed billions of dollars from people frying the planet & who want to keep doing it.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-06/saudis-plan-100-billion-ai-powerhouse-to-rival-uae-s-tech-hub$100 billion buys a lot of awful.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/01/21/how-fossil-fuel-industry-funds-fascism
https://fpif.org/the-fossil-fuel-industry-is-lining-up-behind-far-right-authoritarians/
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/andreas-malm-interview/
https://www.sunrisemovement.org/movement-updates/to-win-on-climate-we-must-crush-fascism/
It also buys a lot of murder & war too.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tourhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/
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Free speech is when you let people say controversial things.
Free speech is not when the world’s richest man builds a CSAM generator, hooks it up to the world’s largest public photo database, and gives 4chan a subscription service.
I’ve written thousands of words defending people’s right to be wrong on the internet.
I don’t need thousands of words for this. I have eight: what the fuck is wrong with these assholes.
“Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” in the post-Internet era.
Every fucking time, we’ve had free speech rights impinged, it was “protect the chiiildren” or “what about the children” always about porn.
But when actual harm is being done, non consensually, actual CSAM being made and passed around, fucking crickets.
These spineless fucks.
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