Because Musk allows such content to be published without stopping it. He facilitates it. The post that Aruntraveller put up remains up despite many complaints. Musk is not passive in this and saying he's just standing up for free speech ignores thar he helps such threats be made.
That you think that there should be consequences for free speech means you do believe in censorship. Should child poronography that is AI produced be allowed on Twitter? If your answer to that is no, then you believe in censorship.
ETA and having made the point, I've removed the screenshots
I’ve had a good think about what you’ve said. Yes, I don’t think free speech is absolute. I do think that all attempts to limit it should be resisted, scrutinised, mulled over extensively, the motives of the proposal makers researched, and the unintended potential deleterious consequences of any restrictions carefully considered. Hard cases = bad law.
In liberal democracies we have a legal code, passed by whatever legislative body we’ve given the job, preferably after thorough examination of the evidence and robust discussion of the need for any new legislation at all. (Shame our politicians are startlingly poor quality and our institutions don’t even pretend to be politically neutral anymore.)
If I think a law is wrong, and I break it, then I face the consequences. Everyone should be treated equally under the law. Nobody has a “right” to not be offended.
Empowering politicians - or any group with power over our lives - to decide what the “truth” is about ANYTHING is very dangerous. In my opinion. What I or anyone else finds offensive should not be the standard for censorship.
I agree with these philosophical positions:
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” (probably Voltaire)
“...the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth; if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth produced by its collision with error.” (JS Mill)
I think Peter Tatchell’s views on the age of consent and related activism are disgusting, dangerous and morally bankrupt, but I’m glad he wrote that review of that book, and that The Guardian published his disgusting letter, and that the BBC think he’s the go-to guy for comments on “inclusivity”, because it exposes him and the BBC and all his apologists for what they are.
https://lilymaynard.com/what-did-peter-tatchell-really-say/You can’t control people’s thoughts and reality won’t be denied indefinitely.
Here’s a screenshot from X. I love mslisterssis. She makes pithy, intelligent, accurate short videos that I generally agree with every word of.
