X has blocked access to accounts run by student groups from top Turkish universities at the request of the Turkish government amid nationwide protests over the detention of the mayor of İstanbul and the cancelation of his university degree, the Diken news website reported on Friday.
Free speech… riiigghhht
The Greatest Free Speech Absolutist!
*But only for Nazi garbage.
Free for me, not for thee
Wasn’t it one of Musk’s stated reasons for buying twitter to prevent exactly this?
Yup. When a right-wing government asks, he complies. When a left-wing government does, he sues.
To be fair the only reason he actually went through with buying Twitter was because he was forced to.
Yea but he wouldn’t just lie right? It’s after 2014 so his cars drive themselves and actually pay their owners money now right?
Yeah, it would be insane not to buy a Tesla self-driving taxi, they pay for themselves
Compare arab spring where Egypt shut down its internet and Twitter did everything it could to ensure messages got through…
To bowing down to authoritarian bullshit and locking down dissenting and potentially dissenting accounts.
You know, from the free speech absolutist.
Yeah some time ago I used to respect these companies I remember when Google condemned the Egyptian government’s actions in 2011 and one of the very popular activists in the revolution was the head of marketing in Google MENA. But now the truth has never been more obvious to me. Individuals may or may not care but corporations will never care.
Free Speech AbsolutistTM
Well it’s not free speech if it is not nazi propaganda.
WhyTF is anyone still on X?
There are no other alternatives, don’t you see? Not a single one. 😢
Meanwhile Fediverse:
Free speech absolutism in action
It’s because of stuff like this that we need to shamelessly promote the Fediverse.
This is why people need to move to the fediverse. To stop the government from shutting down people’s accounts.
Preaching to the choir my fellow lemming
no listen, the fediverse is good! you should try the fediverse!!
But have you considered the fediverse?
Also, we’re neglecting to mention the fediverse as well as the fediverse
Serious question. Why no mention of Bluesky?
My take is that bluesky is owned by a corporation making a protocol (AT protocol) to Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
See example, Microsoft trying to convert the internet to only run on its own browser. Or Google enticing websites to use AMP, only to entrap those sites to only use Google’s ad services.
When profit drives development, enshittification is not a matter of if, but when.
How is development of ActivityPub protocol funded? Volunteers and their grants, crowdfunding, and enthusiasm, as far as I can tell. @.@ Idk if it’s a reason objectively worth supporting FOSS for, but I love when people pool together for their community’s greater good.
Why make a bluesky account when you have all the different platforms that already run ActivityPub? Want a youtube replacement? Peertube!
For Reddit, Lemmy.
Instagram, Pixelfed.
Twitter, Mastodon.
Interact with all on the same account? Sure!But with bluesky? Nope.
I hear lemmy is pretty good
Heil Trump. I wish him that he gets what he deserves.
