Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anonymous Newsgroups: misc.news.internet.discuss Subject: Re: Musk urged to get a grip on X Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2024 00:26:49 -0400 Organization: Mixmin Message-ID: References: <8734necp1w.fsf@enoch.nodomain.nowhere> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2024 04:26:50 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.mixmin.net; posting-host="c4af4a3027e8317d29ea238d8aa6bb2f616aa3fc"; logging-data="2174171"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@mixmin.net" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <8734necp1w.fsf@enoch.nodomain.nowhere> Bytes: 2565 Lines: 37 Mike Spencer wrote: > D writes: > >> I find it very interesting that the only modus operandi western countries >> can now resort to is banning and restricting free speech. > > There's a large number of people who are variously possessed of rabid > fanaticism Yes: they're commonly called 'leftists'. > -- religious, political or confabulated -- and another > large tranche who are driven by sheer perversity. The so-called > "social media" as they are now operated enable these people widely to > instantaneously disseminate overt falsehood, inflammatory rhetoric, > believable misinformation and the like to a vast audience among which > are the gullible, the fearful, the ignorant and the mentally unstable > who can be swept into destructive action, potentially widely when > informally coordinated via contemporary telecom tech. > > The "crying 'FIRE' in a crowded theater" concept desperately needs to > be updated. > >> No one is talking about education, public awareness, treating individuals >> as adults. > > Educating or enlightening the fanatics and the perverse is not doable > and they cannot safely or in good faith be treated as adults. This is > a problem with TFG who enjoys both a confabulated fanatic sense of > self and a perverse enjoyment of doing unto others simply because he > can. He is neither educable nor enlightenable and it has been a big > mistake to treat him as an adult. > > Because of "people" like you, there is more "free speech" in Russia and China than there is in the so-called "West". And the rules are completely straightforward.