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.
Silicon Valley is awash in Chinese and Saudi cash — and no one is paying attention (except Trump)
A tough, new enforcement regime is becoming a geopolitical minefield for venture capitalists and startups.
Vox (www.vox.com)
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/
How the Fossil Fuel Industry Funds Fascism | Common Dreams
The oil, gas, and coal industries support and fund white supremacy and far-right politics.
Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)
The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Lining Up Behind Far-Right Authoritarians - FPIF
As climate change intensifies and countries turn to clean energies, Big Oil will take increasingly desperate measures to survive.
Foreign Policy In Focus (fpif.org)
What’s Worse Than Climate Catastrophe? Climate Catastrophe Plus Fascism.
The Nation Magazine
The Nation (www.thenation.com)
To win on climate, we must crush fascism. - Sunrise Movement
Donald Trump is a corrupt authoritarian. He’s firing, arresting, and deporting anybody who stands in his way, building a dangerous system of repression to silence his opposition. Meanwhile, his corruption is enriching himself and his allies. This is a crucial moment. If we don’t stop him in the next few years, there is no road […]
Sunrise Movement (www.sunrisemovement.org)
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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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.
@Daojoan In an EU where policy makers scream they want to stop CSAM and so they want backdoors on phones and scanning tools to detect what you are sending in your chats, it's good to know we can always move to Twitter / X to message eachother because there's no move whatsoever to stop this.
Yes there has been a bit of news 5 days ago, but it remains silent now.
They're scared of a rich man.
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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.
@Daojoan in the words of the ancient laconians: 'fuck these assholes' would suffice.
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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.
@Daojoan the term Free Speech is always used by those who in the end restrict opinions they dislike.
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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.
@Daojoan May I answer your eight words in only one word? Fascism.
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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.
@Daojoan Maybe we got the idea of free speech wrong. It's about the right to be right. Being wrong is usually no problem in fascist or clerocratic governments, as long as you are wrong their approved way. Being wrong their way while they still try to get into power helps them. Once they are in power, or close to get there, they flood the zone with shit, defending their shit with “free speech”.
Free speech is a concept of the 18th century, trying to overcome aristo&clerocratic governments who rely on lies, indoctrination and conformism.
The most fragile, worth to defend speech is the inconvenient truth. The most common speech is insults, lies, fakes and porn.
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@Daojoan In an EU where policy makers scream they want to stop CSAM and so they want backdoors on phones and scanning tools to detect what you are sending in your chats, it's good to know we can always move to Twitter / X to message eachother because there's no move whatsoever to stop this.
Yes there has been a bit of news 5 days ago, but it remains silent now.
They're scared of a rich man.
RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115865514665481624
@peter_slwk Not so silent: https://mastodon.online/@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu/115865514632404837 (watch especially the video)
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@arclight TIL about Chronophilia ... but isn't ephebo a bit narrow? Like excluding hebephilia(9-14) for instance.
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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.
@Daojoan They are fascists. And even after their "divorce" or end of bromance... They are still the same. The freedom of speech thing was BS for the masses.
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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.
@Daojoan There's a reason CSAM is illegal. Freedom of speech != the right to harm others
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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.
@Daojoan - Thank You, Thank You,Thank You
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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.
@Daojoan The cabal of high-wealth and high-power pederasts allow for this, same shit with the Epstein files.
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@Daojoan Surely many countries must have laws against CSAM? They need to ban all X products & "services".
sure they have laws but has any LEO in ANY nation arrested Musk for creating & sharing these images? no, & they won't because, at the end of the day, no gov't on this Earth really thinks women & children are equal humans worthy of defending
thus bullying women / girls out of public life is a consequence-free crime, all reward, no risk
we have all seen that actual sexual trafficking is fine w/ gov't if the pimp is rich enough
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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.
@Daojoan a lot
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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.
@Daojoan Wankers to a man.
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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.
@Daojoan My much longer twenty-three: they have always been misogynists and pedophiles, and now our government has given them free rein to do whatever the hell they want.
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RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115865514665481624
@peter_slwk Not so silent: https://mastodon.online/@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu/115865514632404837 (watch especially the video)
@NatureMC @peter_slwk @Daojoan Yackety yack. They wouldn’t even call it Child Sexual Abuse Material, they went with “spicy”. Spokespeople can take a seat until they are announcing legal action enforcing the law.
