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    Default Re: Elon Musk's Twitter purchase

    Quote Originally Posted by curious george View Post
    Shots fired brah!
    Jirrrrrr!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Skaaphaas View Post
    I really like that the topic is raised on a platform that was regarded by the left as their strongest platform for “cancelling” persons, businesses and ideas. The whole idea that someone used the free market to make money and then buy their platform from underneath them fills me with joy.
    Me three. The archetypal leftard safe space is looking like getting blown wide open. The vast majority of people banned from twatter did not stray out of legal bounds so if Musk actually makes it into a free speech environment subject only to current laws on libel and so forth the frothing lefties are in for some two way traffic for a change.

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    The point of free speech in my opinion is to allow ideas to be 'transacted' in a free market. Left leaning people leaving twitter is no more laudable than right leaning people being banned. Public oratory used to be the preserve of the connected and powerful. If the web, in the form of twitter, can keep it in the hands of the proles a great service will have been done to western democratic civilisation. Challenging a loony raving lefty/right with an argument they cant have suppressed in a globally accessible forum must be a good thing.

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    Yeah, the point of free speech is to also allow the views you don't like from the people you don't like.

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    Quote Originally Posted by curious george View Post
    Yeah, the point of free speech is to also allow the views you don't like from the people you don't like.
    Yip, if you aren't prepared to defend the right of someone who you disagree with to express their opinion you are a supporter of tyranny regardless of which "ism" you subscribe to.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oafpatroll View Post
    Yip, if you aren't prepared to defend the right of someone who you disagree with to express their opinion you are a supporter of tyranny regardless of which "ism" you subscribe to.
    Sure you don't want us to get a room?

    You know nobody would suspect anything right!

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    Two swallows… summers comin’

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wild coast View Post
    Two swallows… summers comin’
    We can live in hope, but indications are that "winter is coming..."

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    From what I've read, he's financing $29 Billion of the $44 Billion. Twitter doesn't even make enough in a year to cover the 4.5% interest on the loan portion.

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