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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @DarthCoin 29 Apr 2022 \ on: Considering the recent Twitter dilemma regarding censorship and Elon Musk acquiring it for the presumable sake of free speech, what do you think SN should do to become censorship resistant? Should there be a DAO or something similar? meta
People still don't understand the meaning of "free speech"....
Free speech is to protect individuals from a tyrannical government.
Have absolutely nothing to do with a private entity.
If you are an employee in a private company and you say to your boss that is a jerk, he have the right to fire you.
there's a steady push to redefine The First Amendment as "free speech". Those things are related, but 1st goes much farther than merely acknowledging that humans have a god-given right to speak their mind, it explicitly restricts the Government from specific behaviors that would infringe on the establishment or practice of religion, etc... :
First Amendment Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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Free speech is not just a legal framework, its a principle. When people are talking about free speech on Twitter, they're talking about the general principle. Not just the first amendment.
Secondly, I would argue that any entity that takes funding from the government and/or lobbies for laws that enforces its monopoly should be subject to the first amendment.
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first, second, third amendments are only for those US people that declare themselves "citizens".
A sovereign individual doesn't give a shit about any "legal framework" because that will not apply to a sovereign.
A sovereign individual will say whatever wants to say, anytime, as far is respecting the Natural Law. All the rest is just bullshit crap.
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Property rights, freedom of speech, the right to bear arms. All of these are natural rights. Doesn't matter whether a government enumerates them or not. You have them regardless. If a government tries to take them away, you have every right to leave and/or defend your rights.
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Take a good bottle of wine and listen this amazing interview with Mark Passio and Larken Rose.
It touches many aspects of our life.
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