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Several of the folks musk re-platformed on twitter, I guess. No one here, though.

Elon Musk is also a “free speech absolutist” which basically means he’s going to allow whatever on his platform as long as it doesn’t break the law, or directly affect him.

Him, or any of his far right friends, or annoys people, or (in the dumbest, least effective way possible) make money, or...

Musk isn't a free speech absolutist in any sense of the term. I think he's claimed it, but he's also a profligate liar, so.

E: Also yeah, breaking the law is pretty high up there on the "doesn't give a damn" list for musk's twitter. As you note, the moderation team got shitcanned, criminal behavior has exploded on twitter from what I've picked up and musk's shown little to no interest in reigning that in, to the extent it's even possible with how badly the business has been mismanaged over the last handful of months. The company's also been regularly breaking laws, contracts, etc., since the guy took over.

Specific to the US system:

Step one is take most of their guns from most of them; demonstrably from policing efforts the world over, they are generally not needed and US police has proven over and over again they cannot be trusted with the responsibilities involved.

Step two is take most of their money and give it to people that actually know what the fuck they're doing, cops are clearly being called on to handle too many duties they do not having the training or inclination to handle well and that job mandate needs to be broken up and distributed appropriately.

Step three can be getting rid of qualified immunity and similar; they should not have any more protections than any of us when they're in front of a judge, and it is staggeringly clear at this point the organizations involved cannot be trusted with the privilege thereof.

Step four, fuck civil forfeiture and everything that looks like it. Banditry is banditry no matter how you try to fancy it up, and it should be criminal, not enshrined into law.

Steps not necessarily in order. That'd be a good start, and it won't happen until american conservatism is no longer a meaningful political force at a minimum, so *shrugs*

Or put another way, video ads should rightfully be considered and treated as malware on par with anything else that tries to excessively suck up your computer's resources without your explicit and individual consent. Up to me the damn things would be criminal, and there'd be a hard limit on how large (in terms of kb size, probably capping at below a full mb, with a limit on how many can be on a reasonable resolution screen at once) a picture ad could be.

If that could be enforced, we wouldn't have to treat advertising like an active assault on our computers. It'd still be a nuisance, but a hell of a lot less likely to crash our programs.

the joke was that gorilla and guerilla are very different things in regards to what's going in a cooking pot. Long pork ain't bushmeat

... next year? I wasn't aware they had particularly stopped at any point in my lifetime. Trans folk have some of the highest homicide victim rates in the country, iirc.

-lost some 30 pounds

-beefier arms, man boobs no longer pure fat

-still have promenant beer gut

I have the genes of Wario.

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iirc you've more got the genes of bog standard humans, heh. The gutfat is like the last thing to get eaten when you're losing weight, much to many, many people's consternation.

So these are things that warrant extrajudicial brutality alongside the risk of death to you. I wouldn't agree even a little, but it's a position you can take.