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zakk | 3 years ago

Free speech does not mean that private and personal data can be made public.

Posting your bank account statement on Twitter is not free speech.

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SketchySeaBeast|3 years ago

If your bank account statement was publicly available would it be though? Because that's where they are getting the flight records they are rebroadcasting.

zakk|3 years ago

Elon’s flight records are public, but the account aggregated them and made them available to the public in a different form.

A better example would be: a Twitter account reports your position when you are in a public space every five minutes, including pictures of you at the bar, jogging, on a date at a restaurant, etc…

All of these are public informations, but the way they are aggregated amounts to stalking in my opinion.

I admit this is very borderline, tough!

wonderwonder|3 years ago

No, free speech just means that the government does not restrict your speech, it has nothing to do with what a private corporation does. Twitter can censor anything it wants and it does not impede free speech at all.

t0suj4|3 years ago

Publishing distasteful things or things we don't agree with is free speech.

If saying anything wasn't a problem we wouldn't even think of the concept of free speech.

Twitter is not free speech platform and that is okay.