Let's not forget that Musk has used Twitter to openly state that he would support overthrowing democracies in Latin America for his personal interest. As a Latin American person, that upset me to no end. I'm honestly shocked how he was not called out for that.
Usually (always) the ones who are absolutists regarding free speech are the ones who are interested in being able to spread prejudice or disinformation with no consequence.
True. I wonder what they'd do with the ISIS propaganda though? Also wouldn't absolute free speech also enable all kinds of porn on a social media platform?
I appreciate the discussion of the line between civil liberties and civil rights. I hadn't heard it phrased that way before. As to Twitter, I quit almost all social media years ago. I found it was necessary for my mental health.
I joined fbook in high school but never used it. Created a gram during the pandemic, uploaded 9 pics and got bored. And my twitter follows my local electricity suppliers. Now, for a new job, I HAVE start being active on social media. I’m terrified
Yep. I stopped using Twitter the day the Elongated Muskrat took over. I still have my account, I still log into it to keep it active, I've even filed reports on it that have resulted in accounts being suspended when those particular accounts were engaging in defamation against myself and a small group of my friends, but otherwise, I don't use it at all. The only reason I keep that account active is so that I can ensure my safety by reporting defamatory posts, or accounts, when a friend makes me aware of such happening. What I will say is that, if the owner was truly a free speech absolutist (he's not), then the accounts I reported would not have been suspended, nor would individual tweets be removed from the platform.
@@KidarWolf Facebook is another platform I steer clear of. Though my account is still active it's only for reasons connected to my work or to use Market Place. Even Instagram is just for entertainment at the end of the day. I never post anything myself with exception of the occassional light-hearted comment to a post I watched.
I would be fascinated to see Leeja's opinions of what the hell is going on with Twitter now. Especially with Threads, the checkmark price, and the tweet limitations going on. 👀
European here. There's a ton of websites I can't access because they're "Not available in your location because we can't comply with regulations." I'm gonna lmao if that law passes & twitter/facebook reply by just going offline in Texas.
You act as if they are in the right for trying to continue suppressing basic human rights like free speech. If the corporation does that, I hope they suffer and burn to the ground.
Ugh screw Elon. It seems like what people who talk about absolute free speech actually want is freedom from consequences. As in "I'll say whatever I want and you can't blame me for the consequences because first amendment." And as you say, only as long as it's in their own interest.
As a Brit I find this whole thing really hard to understand and also quiet scary. I always struggle to comprehend how and way the whole world is affected because 1 country holds a 300 year old document as sacred. It's bat shit crazy. Please stop this shit America!
I don't understand how Brits don't get that we aren't asking for permission. Free speech is a right. To infringe on it we will fight to the death against, are you prepared to die or kill in the name of censorship and fascism?
As an American, I'm glad we have it for a few things, but our weird reverence and almost worship of it is truly disturbing. Also the fact that people only like to quote the parts they like of one amendment or another (the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed), but ignore other parts of that same amendment (a WELL REGULATED militia, being necessary...). "If it suits MY interests, then it must be what's right and good, and DON'T TAKE THAT FROM ME EVEN IF IT GETS PEOPLE KILLED!!!"
@@ckEagle165 that's not ignoring part of it, you don't have to be part of a militia. The military is the militia, the amendment is saying because a military is necessary for a free state, the right of THE PEOPLE to bear arms shall not be infringed. The reasoning why is made clear by the federalist papers Also if course this brit hates basic human rights like free speech.
This video was very informative & explained in a great way for those that may not fully understand the judicial system. I also love that in this video you mentioned how when it fits agendas people tend to have some kind of understanding that they will gain from the hypocrisy... When bills & laws are created/ implemented society doesn't really understand the importance of knowledge & consequences... it's all about what they feel is to be gained for themselves. "When it sounds to good to be true, it usually is to good to be true." Thank you for this video.
I'm actually surprised the comments weren't worse, but yes, you should laugh at them. I get you, you have been on point & sensible, you make a lot of sense & we need more young people like you. Keep it up!
as an expat, it's so bizarre to me how many americans view the first amendment (the part about free speech in particular) as this sacred staple of democracy that, if you reasonably limit it, will take the country down lol and let's not act as if the constitution was written by some wise people with ideal moral stances that we can't even judge. it's ok to change constitutions, after all, social norms and ethics change, and legal documents should correspond to that change as well.
So the issue is that Americans are taught and raised that the constitution and the founding fathers are sacred cows. We have it drilled into us very young. We are told how great Washington was, and every good detail about Franklin, and that the constitution is our only defence against government tyranny. When you think about it, it is no surprise that Americans are so woefully under prepared to deal with situations involving it. Not to mention that we have politics which also cause massive damage.
I moved to Canada in 2010. Right before I did, my dentist told me that I wouldn't have the right to free speech & that I could get arrested for speaking my mind. (He was a massive Republican!) The fact that he did that while he was cleaning my teeth & I couldn't respond seemed a touch ironic.
I’m just now seeing your video, Leeja, and though you posted it several months ago it’s stunning how prescient it is. Now that MuskLove has been driving Twitter like a driverless Tesla for several months, your assessment of how it would fare under that self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” are spot on. It seems each decision he made was worse than the last one. I heard a few days or week ago that Twitter’s value is around $15 B, or 1/3 what ol’ Space X-cadet paid for it. Billionaire genius, huh? More like Dr. Evil.
Excellent analysis. You've given me a few lovely points of contact for a piece I'm writing about current allusions to free speech - Musk's included - as an iteration of the fallacy known as the 'paradox of intolerance', centred on free speech (and tolerance) as goal-oriented principles, as opposed to absolute moral or ethical principles, and also exposing what George Orwell really said about free speech (because it's obvious that the vast majority of invocations of Orwell on this subject are by people who've never read any Orwell). Orwell was well aware that there had to be limits where there was harm to society, as he stated categorically in the essay he wrote as an introduction for the publication of Animal Farm. Thank you so much. You've probably turned 3,000 words into 5,000 with this. Very, very good.
As someone who has read Orwell, the sort of cultivated speech that you Bill of Rights haters advocate is exactly what he was parodying in "1984" as part of newspeak. He said nothing about "harm to society"---if you're hellbent on looking for "harm to society" you'll always find away to mold it to your definition as a justification for censorship and other means of repressive tolerance. If free speech isn't absolute it's meaningless. The most dangerous and harmful of speech is precisely what most needs to be protected. Chances are, Musk won't be free speech enough when he finally purchases a radically reduced-in-value Twitter before it collapses. But at least he's helping to destroy it by merely allowing it to draw attention to what a Potemkin village it is, having defrauded advertisers for years through an inflated sense of its value.
@@americandirt7834 "You bill of rights haters"? See, that's where not being able to think clearly gets you. I'm an enormous advocate of the bill of rights, with the exception of the asinine 2nd amendment. It's not perfect, and there are gaping holes in it because of the way clauses are separated, meaning that although bodily autonomy is implicit in the 1st, 4th and 5th amendments. I find your claim to having read Orwell not credible. ETA: Forgot to add - what made you think I was talking about 1984? Orwell said very little about free speech in that. He did have some things to say about prescribed and proscribed speech, but you have to have actually read Orwell and not just the popular stuff. I recommend starting with the essay he penned for the release of Animal Farm. If you're struggling to find it, I think the version on Gutenberg has it included. You should try stowing your assumptions before casting aspersions. Clear thinkers look for where their presuppositions might fail and avoid such assertions. Your post failed before you even posted it precisely because of a failed presuppposition.
@@tonymurphy2624 You claim Orwell knew "that there had to be limits where there was harm to society," which means you really aren't a big defender at all of the Bill of Rights. It's that simple. It's not a failed supposition, since you laid your hand out plain and clear right from the start. Freedom of speech must apply to in all cases, including "harm to society", which of course is a completely subjective judgment. And if you don't think Orwell had anything to say regarding free speech in "1984" then I question whether YOU'VE read anything. The entire basis of the novel was a dystopia predicated on the systematic overwriting of speech traditions for the sake of a collectivistic policing of "wrongthink". And if you think the 2nd amendment is asinine, then yeah, you aren't an advocate of the bill of rights in the least. When the government jackboots come at you with a twisted rethinking of Amendment 1, or 4, or 9...you will need the protections afforded in Amendment 2 to defend against tyranny. It's really that simple. Without the promises of 2A, the promises in the other 9 (or the rest of the Constitution) can be lifted at any time, in the interest of preventing "harm to society".
Paradox of intolerance is just an excuse by the real fascists and authoritarians to justify taking our rights away to fight "fascism" I'm not asking for permission. I'm either going to say what I want, or I'll fight to the death free. Are you going to kill for authoritarianism?
There is one better alternative to how this shakes out if Texas does pass its law. Some US websites have not bothered to comply with GDPR, and have simply blocked EU ips from accessing them. Many local US news sites do this for example. It's extremely frustrating, but mostly just affects EU people when trying to access some local article. If these social media companies did want to resist this law in a very bombastic way, they could theoretically roll out an IP block across Texas. Rather than completely overhauling the way they do business, they can simply say "the way we do business is not allowed in Texas anymore." If Twitter, Facebook, RUclips, etc., became inaccessible to Texans overnight, I'm not sure the law would receive such a warm welcome by the people there.
Hey Leeja, would you consider making a video about tenant rights? I'm currently in a bit of conflict with my landlord, and I'm only able to navigate the supports available to me a little bit with help from my friends. I'm from Canada, so your advice probably wouldn't be SUPER relevant to me, but I'm sure I'm not the only one with this issue! The establishment doesn't have any motivation to publicize information that enables the lower classes to stand up to the upper classes, but I feel like it would be at home on your channel.
@@MalkavDraconic your right. But I mean, the fact a judge doesn't even know the difference between an internet provider and a website. This has been common knowledge for decades. She has no excuse at all.
It's nice to see that his 44 billion purchase is tanking because of his management of the company. Twitter tends to be a cesspool unless one carefully curates one's feed...
serious users on Twitter almost always curate their feed unless they want to engage with idiots that populate the platform. That's ok . Progress is messy, always has been
Honestly it's looking like Elon is trying really hard to find a way to weasel out of this without having to pay anything for wasting everyone's time. I also think if Elon where to buy Twitter it would likely change but not as much as he claims, my guess is he'd either turn around and sell it again at a lose, or just gut the company after a few years when he gets bored and finds some other way to troll humanity and stay relevant. Someone called him a "smarter Trump" the other day to explain Elon's ego and I had to correct them with "modern day Trump" since you could look back to Trump when he just turned 50 and he was only slightly out of touch with reality, jump forward 15 years and you get "Obama's Birth certificate" Trump, and less than 5 year to get Presidential Candidate Trump, so Elon will likely go down a similiar road to Bumbling wealthy old white guy... the world and America are just lucky he was not born in the USA and the USA currently has laws that prevent non-American born citizens to run for president.
Yes! I listened to a Bloomberg Law podcast a couple weeks ago about Musk making moves to weasel out of the deal. It really goes to show how rash his decision-making is. He dives into these huge transactions with such bravado, things that have broad impact on people's lives (beyond just Twitter users, but media consumers in general), and then too late he and his legal team realize that what he is actually proposing is nuts, and not physically, financially, or legally possible. The guy is an idiot, pretending to be smart. To your point, I am definitely glad he can't run for the presidency
Twitter tried to protect themselves, he took it as an affront, threw money around to prove he's in charge, and now regrets his impulse purchase. As bad as I think it is for Musk to own Twitter, I also want to see him have to deal with his own stupidity.
One lesson we should take from both of them is that laws aren't always a foolproof protection. Just having a platform, and the money to pursue lawsuits & PR campaigns ad nauseum, are enough to build political power. Their hail marys at influencing politics are dangerous just because they won't face consequences so 1. They can keep trying indefinitely & 2. Eventually their actions can become normalized by them continuing to break boundaries with no consequences.
@@shadowldrago What about it? He was sued and forced to buy Twitter after attempting to back out. And now he's attempting to sue the lawyers that sued him on behalf of Twitter because as the person that acquired Twitter he is now also responsible for the debt Twitter accumulated and paid out for the legal fees (a sum of 90 million dollars). So he was forced to pay for something he didn't really want because he talked too big, and was also forced to pay the people that forced him to buy Twitter or hold him legally responsible for breach of contract. As for how the company is doing; he's micromanaging, going on mass firings of management and R&D, and making it the service worse with each passing week. This would be a classic example of the Honeymoon phase of a business venture he will eventually lose interest in and sell or gut it. Remember purchases like those of a company like Twitter have limitations on how long the new owner must wait to turn around and sell it, change the brand/name, or close it down since the new owner must insure job security for so long to the employees of the company they acquired.
Unrelated to the content of your video -- which is excellent! -- I'm so glad to see someone who looks even somewhat like me covering a variety of topics. Thank you!
If Elon buys twitter I will continue to not use Twitter and will maintain my current lack of Twitter profile as protest. Strong measures, but necessary.
I deactivated my account when Musk made the claim that he was buying twitter, which to be fair was easy as I don't use it very often at all. It's a shame that Musk has really followed the path of the evil, power-hungry billionaire he was supposedly so different from, but honestly it's not surprising that he's doing all this. Innovation and ambition sure make odd bedfellows.
He founded the company PayPal, but the company PayPal is a reskin of the groundwork laid by an ukrainian-american software engineer. He did not create any of the actual code or design that is PayPal. He's not the founder of Tesla, he was an early investor and bought his way into being granted retroactive founder status. His contribution to the company is investment and branding, not innovation. He did actually found his passion project, SpaceX and made sure to staff it with exceptional talent. But let's not get it twisted... He's a businessman, not a rocket scientist. Elon Musk doesn't innovate, he invests in innovation to profit from it, often complaining about the people doing the dirty work wanting to be fairly compensated and work reasonable hours. That has ALWAYS been the case, he hasn't changed or gotten worse. He's not a scrappy middleclass innovator that worked his way to the top, he's an entitled multi millionaires son that has a talent for branding and could easily take a lot of financial risks with the safety net of his parent's wealth.
@@KattReen yet he still succeeded in dragging the EV revolution forward. Do you really think that the major automakers would care about EVs if they weren't being outsold and outmaneuvered?
The internet already has a massive problem with targeted harassment. This would make things worse, not better. Also, thank you for your perspective on the Depp-Heard case. Platforms need to be able to regulate what's on them and stop antisocial behaviour. There's no way hoards of people should be able to inundate a professional's page with fake negative reviews because they're not happy with an opinion expressed as an expert witness.
It's really frustrating that there is no mechanism by which rulings and decisions must include definitions of the various components (like understanding the difference between "internet" and "websites") and can be technically rejected and revised if it is demonstrably incorrect. I'm sure arguments can be made in appeals or courts or whatever, but if it comes down to a judge/lawmaker interpreting via a deliberately bad-faith understanding of a technology or organization, they'd have no reason to take it back. Seems like there needs to be some kind of superceding method by which a proper understanding of something needs to be explicitly integrated into their reasoning, right?
You make me really want to go to law school. I don't really have much interest in being a practicing lawyer, but I love school. If only it didn't cost a billion dollars. I only recently finished paying for my first time around.
Leeja! I’ve been obsessed with the Strict Scrutiny podcast since you mentioned it in your Roe v Wade livestream. ConLaw is sooo interesting to me and you and this podcast have really made me consider law school instead of a Public Policy Masters. Both might be unrealistic since I’m already 26 and I won’t graduate with my Economics undergrad until the end of the year, but I can dream 😭
Hey I'm almost 45 and thinking about going back to get a master's degree. I didn't finish undergrad until I was almost 31. It's never too late to seek higher education, if you feel passionate about it, and think you are up for the intense challenges of law school, you should do it! We need good people in the system
We are finding that the U.S. Constitution, and it's added amendments, is not the work of genius we've always treated it as. It was a document very much a product of the time it was written. Really needs and update/redo, but too many benefit from its vagueness.
Can't the internet providers just stop providing in Texas? Same thing woth social media policies. Can't Twitter and Facebook just decide they won't operate in Texas? It's a private business and if it's tol hard to operate there they can just cancel it there.
Just watched this now, and it's honestly impress how prescient you were, after watching Elon drive Twitter/X into the ground. Yes, we all knew that he would be an idiot, but you really nailed it.
As a person who is professionally compelled to pay attention to the stock market - that's the best darn synopsis of what the stock market is in actuality.
If Americans are so set on having the same set of twenty five year olds run their Supreme Court until they are senior citizens or die from old age, they should allow the Court to bring in external experts to teach them what to do and how to understand these things.
To the degree we can be certain is the degree to which there are absolutes. And I'm not sure anyone can be absolutely certain of anything. I think I've matured from my age of certainty. This makes me think Musk has a great deal of growing up to do. Some never grow up. Thank you Ms Miller.
I am Australian, living in Australia so First Amendment do not apply, yet we still have free speech (but limited by statute and common law, e.g. defamation law). What always amazes me about the U.S. and its citizens is the idea that freedom is absolute for you, but now and historically is limited for those you don’t like or see as a threat to you interests. These problems are universal. But how is it in anyone’s (except Tesla or Musk’s) to demand non-disclose on matters of employee safety or product safety or fit for purpose? Your correct in your assessment there always a balancing act between the rights of one versus others, but it seems to me people like Musk give themselves by virtue of their money and position god-like power to impose their world view on others. That’s a strange sort of freedom. Another question as an outsider, given the nature and state of modern American society, is your constitution fit for purpose? To me it seems not. And, lastly, I stopped using Twitter - too much spam, too many taking heads, bots, too much hate, too many events being peddled as today’s existential crisis.
girl i just want to say KUDOS for you post about amber heard. I was disgusted when I saw all these people saying how crappy johnny depp is but don't hold him accountable for any of it. (has an ISLAND but does not donate money?, demands things from the people who work for him and is an asshole when he does not get what he wants. a few of them said that.) i love his work and i was always his fan and not hers. when i saw this trial, i was dumbfounded. they are 100% trying to discredit victims of abuse and scare them into not saying anything. CLEARLY she did not make all of that stuff up and they were just a toxic couple. hopefully she doesn't stop trying to tell the truth because at this point, it is her only option. to keep standing!
For me it's been few days since the icon of twitter changed and I was like "the hell is this... oh Elon's new bullshit" and then the name of the app changed to X and I about lost it.
Wish you had started with the amendment only applies to congress and federal government actors/ In fact, private entities and non-federal actors can infringe on speech in ways that goes beyond the exceptions
So I had this theory~~ Johnny Depp had sent that "global humiliation" text where he promised to ruin Amber, anyways in it he reallllly goes in on Elon Musk. Calls him a crooked d*ck, says he will slice off half of his d*ck and refers to him as "Mollusk". He ends the message 'lets see if mollusk has a pair!' No doubt Elon Musk saw that when It came out in court. Well during the UK investigation, it was found that Johnny Depps team launched one of the biggest cyber attacks on Twitter with THOUSANDS of bots aimed to spread anti-amber and pro-johnny posts and making hashtags trend in Depps favor to manipulate public opinion.. Then all of the sudden Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44bil ☠️☠️ Just an interesting coincidence
The key here is "the business model" and does it conform to the first fundamental functional principle of Democracy, which America isn't . I.e. The first fundamental functional principle is to protect the population's rights while advancing their livability well-being, both as the individual and as a whole. Note that it excluded created non-living / voting entities e.g. political Parties, special interest groups, political parties, members of congress or judiciary, religions et al.
This deal will never go through bc of bad financials. Musk is the "richest person in the world" but that's from Tesla and SpaceX valuations. Not actual liquid assets. It's why he needed to recruit other financial backers to come up with the $44b to buy Twitter. And he still needed to heavily leverage Tesla and SpaceX stock to do this. And those stocks are taking a real beating (moreso than the general market which as a whole is trending down). He's never actually go through with it, he'll make up some excuse about fake spam accts. Or lower the price to less than half of the original offer to try and force Twitter to walk away. But the real reason is bc Musk is not as rich as we think.
And being August 2023, we now know exactly what Twitter has become. Thanks to Elon. I personally deleted my account in like March when I heard rumors that he was going to start policing Democrat postings.
I replied to an Elon Musk tweet about the cost of twitter blue, because I live in the UK the price of twitter blue is £11 pm which with the exchange rate is still a lot more than the $7 charged in the US, the original tweet got over 11m views, my comment got 4, not 4m just 4 over a 2 hour period. Musk would do better to just admit he wants twitter to be a platform where he and his friends can say what they like, then everyone can make the decision if they want to be on the platform. I hate it that Musk has got me rooting for Zuckerberg, but here we are.
Any person Claiming that their will is the way to do things and does not ask the opinion of the population that person is a bad actor. Long ago I was a elon fan but now I have seen over the past 2 years more and more of his manipulation. I feel if you have over 5 million in the bank you should be labeled a prospector and be taxed as such. These folks hold the land, the money, the legislature. We don't need to listen to their out of touch class speech being veiled as a freedom thing. Us buying into the rhetoric literally defangs ourselves. We don't need to accept the situation they created for us.
I don’t need to break terms of service or subject the public to hate speech when posting the language I regularly use on a day-to-day basis or the viewpoints I would theoretically share on social media. Like… what do these people REALLY want to say that is so awful that the only defense for saying it is because they are *legally* allowed to? In every other sense it is despicable, inhumane, immoral, hateful and vile but oops! technically it’s legal! Just because you *can* do something doesn’t mean you should want to (let alone absolutely have to at all costs like some of these nut jobs think they do.) Some of these thoughts are *inside* thoughts, babe. You don’t want to be that person who gouges their eyes out with a melon baller just because you CAN. Although, if it came between doing that and spreading hate and misinformation then I’d honestly rather you go for the former because at least then you’re only harming yourself instead of others.
14:23 - ooh, yes please! I'd love to see a video about the shadow docket! - your newest subscriber, having subbed after watching just one video -- you know, that comments were closed on, but where I absolutely agreed with your analysis, and am absolutely disgusted with others' reactions to things. Watching this now, definitely glad I subbed!
They could've changed that name Peatos. Saying that in public might get the police called. Sounds like they might be tasty but the name alone gave me a chuckle. And worry. 😂 But in all seriousness Musk only knows one speech, whatever he says goes and anything he doesn't like get silenced.
I am not a free speech absolutist because I regret nearly everything I think say or do. In cases of people who are well positioned or very successful this feeling is unlikely a shared experience
Let's not forget that Musk has used Twitter to openly state that he would support overthrowing democracies in Latin America for his personal interest. As a Latin American person, that upset me to no end. I'm honestly shocked how he was not called out for that.
What the fuuuuuck. Thank you for stating this. I hadn’t heard of this. Another reason to not support him.
Haha bro was a joke, Elon is the prime internet troll seems like a lot of people don't realize that
@@Werevertumoto I think this comment proofs why “free speech” is not absolute.
@@Werevertumoto people thought Trump was a joke. When people tell you who they are believe them.
As a resident of the united states that sadly does not surprise me
The fact that people idealise this guy as much as they do is worrying
agreed
he is so gross.
@@LeejaMiller ruclips.net/video/nibvgs0wPYk/видео.html
@@bobloblaw9679 You're quite a mouthful!
@@wvu05 He's right though.
Usually (always) the ones who are absolutists regarding free speech are the ones who are interested in being able to spread prejudice or disinformation with no consequence.
Speech that I don't like or agree with = misinformation. It should be censored.
True. I wonder what they'd do with the ISIS propaganda though?
Also wouldn't absolute free speech also enable all kinds of porn on a social media platform?
@@elainelouve Obscene speech has fallen within "time, place and manner" restrictions. Unpopular political opinions do not.
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Free speech means speech you don't like too, not just speech you agree with.
It's painful to me how little lawmakers understand of the internet even though it's been central to our lives for decades at this point.
Barely decades
@@kimiyanovin7568 you know the internet has been around since the 80's. That's 40 years, so not really barely.
@@SlothDaan Sure, not talking about how long it has existed, talking about how long it’s been central…
@@SlothDaan are you saying that it was a central part of our lives 40 years ago?
@@kimiyanovin7568 It has been an integral part of my life since I was about 16. That was in 2001. More than 20 years ago. Decades.
I appreciate the discussion of the line between civil liberties and civil rights. I hadn't heard it phrased that way before.
As to Twitter, I quit almost all social media years ago. I found it was necessary for my mental health.
I quit about 1 1/2 years ago, it's almost impossible to use it relating to information and education without quickly being overwhelmed
I joined fbook in high school but never used it. Created a gram during the pandemic, uploaded 9 pics and got bored. And my twitter follows my local electricity suppliers.
Now, for a new job, I HAVE start being active on social media. I’m terrified
The amount of validation and sheer righteous vindication this video gave me is GLORIOUS. I've had this discussion WAY TOO MANY TIMES.
An English prof of mine used an old punk phrase a lot “the right to swing your fist stops, where my face starts.”
You are one of the best law RUclipsrs. Your content is always sharp and informative. Keep up the hard work, you deserve way more subscribers
I think the history of the last year showed that you were absolutely right on all counts here.
So, Elon did buy Twitter & here we are in 2023 as Mr Free Speech picks & chooses what absolute free speech actually means & how it benefits him . . .
Yep. I stopped using Twitter the day the Elongated Muskrat took over. I still have my account, I still log into it to keep it active, I've even filed reports on it that have resulted in accounts being suspended when those particular accounts were engaging in defamation against myself and a small group of my friends, but otherwise, I don't use it at all. The only reason I keep that account active is so that I can ensure my safety by reporting defamatory posts, or accounts, when a friend makes me aware of such happening. What I will say is that, if the owner was truly a free speech absolutist (he's not), then the accounts I reported would not have been suspended, nor would individual tweets be removed from the platform.
@@KidarWolf Facebook is another platform I steer clear of. Though my account is still active it's only for reasons connected to my work or to use Market Place. Even Instagram is just for entertainment at the end of the day. I never post anything myself with exception of the occassional light-hearted comment to a post I watched.
He also won't allow white advocate speech either, which is really disappointing.
I would be fascinated to see Leeja's opinions of what the hell is going on with Twitter now. Especially with Threads, the checkmark price, and the tweet limitations going on. 👀
European here. There's a ton of websites I can't access because they're "Not available in your location because we can't comply with regulations." I'm gonna lmao if that law passes & twitter/facebook reply by just going offline in Texas.
If the courts then try to intervene by saying they're ISPs again, I'll first laugh then cry.
You act as if they are in the right for trying to continue suppressing basic human rights like free speech. If the corporation does that, I hope they suffer and burn to the ground.
I’m actually glad that I can stop a website from collection cookies on me.
Ugh screw Elon. It seems like what people who talk about absolute free speech actually want is freedom from consequences. As in "I'll say whatever I want and you can't blame me for the consequences because first amendment." And as you say, only as long as it's in their own interest.
Leeja Miller for President 2024. 🇺🇸❤👍
As a Brit I find this whole thing really hard to understand and also quiet scary. I always struggle to comprehend how and way the whole world is affected because 1 country holds a 300 year old document as sacred. It's bat shit crazy. Please stop this shit America!
I don't understand how Brits don't get that we aren't asking for permission. Free speech is a right. To infringe on it we will fight to the death against, are you prepared to die or kill in the name of censorship and fascism?
As an American, I'm glad we have it for a few things, but our weird reverence and almost worship of it is truly disturbing.
Also the fact that people only like to quote the parts they like of one amendment or another (the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed), but ignore other parts of that same amendment (a WELL REGULATED militia, being necessary...).
"If it suits MY interests, then it must be what's right and good, and DON'T TAKE THAT FROM ME EVEN IF IT GETS PEOPLE KILLED!!!"
@@ckEagle165 that's not ignoring part of it, you don't have to be part of a militia. The military is the militia, the amendment is saying because a military is necessary for a free state, the right of THE PEOPLE to bear arms shall not be infringed.
The reasoning why is made clear by the federalist papers
Also if course this brit hates basic human rights like free speech.
@@ChaffyExpert
Search Right to Bear Arms and Slave Patrols
How old is Magna Carta?
This video was very informative & explained in a great way for those that may not fully understand the judicial system. I also love that in this video you mentioned how when it fits agendas people tend to have some kind of understanding that they will gain from the hypocrisy... When bills & laws are created/ implemented society doesn't really understand the importance of knowledge & consequences... it's all about what they feel is to be gained for themselves. "When it sounds to good to be true, it usually is to good to be true." Thank you for this video.
I'm actually surprised the comments weren't worse, but yes, you should laugh at them. I get you, you have been on point & sensible, you make a lot of sense & we need more young people like you. Keep it up!
as an expat, it's so bizarre to me how many americans view the first amendment (the part about free speech in particular) as this sacred staple of democracy that, if you reasonably limit it, will take the country down lol
and let's not act as if the constitution was written by some wise people with ideal moral stances that we can't even judge. it's ok to change constitutions, after all, social norms and ethics change, and legal documents should correspond to that change as well.
Agreed. It's insane that we're still following a document written by slaveholders in a time where women had zero rights
So the issue is that Americans are taught and raised that the constitution and the founding fathers are sacred cows. We have it drilled into us very young. We are told how great Washington was, and every good detail about Franklin, and that the constitution is our only defence against government tyranny.
When you think about it, it is no surprise that Americans are so woefully under prepared to deal with situations involving it. Not to mention that we have politics which also cause massive damage.
I moved to Canada in 2010. Right before I did, my dentist told me that I wouldn't have the right to free speech & that I could get arrested for speaking my mind. (He was a massive Republican!)
The fact that he did that while he was cleaning my teeth & I couldn't respond seemed a touch ironic.
@@quixentric you'd expect dentists to be smarter really
@@jayjayjayjay1067 I should maybe make it clear that he wasn't a very good dentist haha
Ironically, as a free speech absolutist he likes to block people from twitter lol.
I’m just now seeing your video, Leeja, and though you posted it several months ago it’s stunning how prescient it is. Now that MuskLove has been driving Twitter like a driverless Tesla for several months, your assessment of how it would fare under that self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” are spot on.
It seems each decision he made was worse than the last one. I heard a few days or week ago that Twitter’s value is around $15 B, or 1/3 what ol’ Space X-cadet paid for it.
Billionaire genius, huh? More like Dr. Evil.
That free speech absolutist removed my account of 10 years for trolling him. So much for free speech huh? 😂
i feel like i’m having a very educated conversation with a friend about the current state of the political world and it’s great, thank you!
Excellent analysis. You've given me a few lovely points of contact for a piece I'm writing about current allusions to free speech - Musk's included - as an iteration of the fallacy known as the 'paradox of intolerance', centred on free speech (and tolerance) as goal-oriented principles, as opposed to absolute moral or ethical principles, and also exposing what George Orwell really said about free speech (because it's obvious that the vast majority of invocations of Orwell on this subject are by people who've never read any Orwell). Orwell was well aware that there had to be limits where there was harm to society, as he stated categorically in the essay he wrote as an introduction for the publication of Animal Farm.
Thank you so much. You've probably turned 3,000 words into 5,000 with this. Very, very good.
As someone who has read Orwell, the sort of cultivated speech that you Bill of Rights haters advocate is exactly what he was parodying in "1984" as part of newspeak.
He said nothing about "harm to society"---if you're hellbent on looking for "harm to society" you'll always find away to mold it to your definition as a justification for censorship and other means of repressive tolerance.
If free speech isn't absolute it's meaningless. The most dangerous and harmful of speech is precisely what most needs to be protected.
Chances are, Musk won't be free speech enough when he finally purchases a radically reduced-in-value Twitter before it collapses. But at least he's helping to destroy it by merely allowing it to draw attention to what a Potemkin village it is, having defrauded advertisers for years through an inflated sense of its value.
@@americandirt7834 "You bill of rights haters"?
See, that's where not being able to think clearly gets you. I'm an enormous advocate of the bill of rights, with the exception of the asinine 2nd amendment. It's not perfect, and there are gaping holes in it because of the way clauses are separated, meaning that although bodily autonomy is implicit in the 1st, 4th and 5th amendments.
I find your claim to having read Orwell not credible.
ETA: Forgot to add - what made you think I was talking about 1984? Orwell said very little about free speech in that. He did have some things to say about prescribed and proscribed speech, but you have to have actually read Orwell and not just the popular stuff. I recommend starting with the essay he penned for the release of Animal Farm. If you're struggling to find it, I think the version on Gutenberg has it included.
You should try stowing your assumptions before casting aspersions. Clear thinkers look for where their presuppositions might fail and avoid such assertions. Your post failed before you even posted it precisely because of a failed presuppposition.
@@tonymurphy2624 You claim Orwell knew "that there had to be limits where there was harm to society," which means you really aren't a big defender at all of the Bill of Rights.
It's that simple. It's not a failed supposition, since you laid your hand out plain and clear right from the start. Freedom of speech must apply to in all cases, including "harm to society", which of course is a completely subjective judgment.
And if you don't think Orwell had anything to say regarding free speech in "1984" then I question whether YOU'VE read anything. The entire basis of the novel was a dystopia predicated on the systematic overwriting of speech traditions for the sake of a collectivistic policing of "wrongthink".
And if you think the 2nd amendment is asinine, then yeah, you aren't an advocate of the bill of rights in the least. When the government jackboots come at you with a twisted rethinking of Amendment 1, or 4, or 9...you will need the protections afforded in Amendment 2 to defend against tyranny. It's really that simple. Without the promises of 2A, the promises in the other 9 (or the rest of the Constitution) can be lifted at any time, in the interest of preventing "harm to society".
Paradox of intolerance is just an excuse by the real fascists and authoritarians to justify taking our rights away to fight "fascism"
I'm not asking for permission. I'm either going to say what I want, or I'll fight to the death free. Are you going to kill for authoritarianism?
There is one better alternative to how this shakes out if Texas does pass its law. Some US websites have not bothered to comply with GDPR, and have simply blocked EU ips from accessing them. Many local US news sites do this for example. It's extremely frustrating, but mostly just affects EU people when trying to access some local article.
If these social media companies did want to resist this law in a very bombastic way, they could theoretically roll out an IP block across Texas. Rather than completely overhauling the way they do business, they can simply say "the way we do business is not allowed in Texas anymore." If Twitter, Facebook, RUclips, etc., became inaccessible to Texans overnight, I'm not sure the law would receive such a warm welcome by the people there.
Hey Leeja, would you consider making a video about tenant rights? I'm currently in a bit of conflict with my landlord, and I'm only able to navigate the supports available to me a little bit with help from my friends.
I'm from Canada, so your advice probably wouldn't be SUPER relevant to me, but I'm sure I'm not the only one with this issue! The establishment doesn't have any motivation to publicize information that enables the lower classes to stand up to the upper classes, but I feel like it would be at home on your channel.
I would love to see an update to this video now that Elon Musk has purchased Twitter and openly revealed all of his opinions about free speech.
The justice system’s illiteracy with internet issues is maddening.
Right? They can't keep up with the internet but they can quickly pass laws against trans people...
Systems old and slow to update. Internet is like quicksilver in how it shifts and changes.
@@MalkavDraconic your right. But I mean, the fact a judge doesn't even know the difference between an internet provider and a website. This has been common knowledge for decades. She has no excuse at all.
There is no such thing as "internet issues literacy". Internet it's an unpredictable jungle.
@@AlbertGuilmont How thought terminating 😐. You really thought you did something there huh
you do incredible reporting! i wish the news was like this.
It's nice to see that his 44 billion purchase is tanking because of his management of the company. Twitter tends to be a cesspool unless one carefully curates one's feed...
serious users on Twitter almost always curate their feed unless they want to engage with idiots that populate the platform. That's ok . Progress is messy, always has been
Honestly it's looking like Elon is trying really hard to find a way to weasel out of this without having to pay anything for wasting everyone's time. I also think if Elon where to buy Twitter it would likely change but not as much as he claims, my guess is he'd either turn around and sell it again at a lose, or just gut the company after a few years when he gets bored and finds some other way to troll humanity and stay relevant. Someone called him a "smarter Trump" the other day to explain Elon's ego and I had to correct them with "modern day Trump" since you could look back to Trump when he just turned 50 and he was only slightly out of touch with reality, jump forward 15 years and you get "Obama's Birth certificate" Trump, and less than 5 year to get Presidential Candidate Trump, so Elon will likely go down a similiar road to Bumbling wealthy old white guy... the world and America are just lucky he was not born in the USA and the USA currently has laws that prevent non-American born citizens to run for president.
Yes! I listened to a Bloomberg Law podcast a couple weeks ago about Musk making moves to weasel out of the deal. It really goes to show how rash his decision-making is. He dives into these huge transactions with such bravado, things that have broad impact on people's lives (beyond just Twitter users, but media consumers in general), and then too late he and his legal team realize that what he is actually proposing is nuts, and not physically, financially, or legally possible. The guy is an idiot, pretending to be smart. To your point, I am definitely glad he can't run for the presidency
Twitter tried to protect themselves, he took it as an affront, threw money around to prove he's in charge, and now regrets his impulse purchase.
As bad as I think it is for Musk to own Twitter, I also want to see him have to deal with his own stupidity.
One lesson we should take from both of them is that laws aren't always a foolproof protection. Just having a platform, and the money to pursue lawsuits & PR campaigns ad nauseum, are enough to build political power.
Their hail marys at influencing politics are dangerous just because they won't face consequences so 1. They can keep trying indefinitely & 2. Eventually their actions can become normalized by them continuing to break boundaries with no consequences.
So. About that.
@@shadowldrago What about it? He was sued and forced to buy Twitter after attempting to back out. And now he's attempting to sue the lawyers that sued him on behalf of Twitter because as the person that acquired Twitter he is now also responsible for the debt Twitter accumulated and paid out for the legal fees (a sum of 90 million dollars). So he was forced to pay for something he didn't really want because he talked too big, and was also forced to pay the people that forced him to buy Twitter or hold him legally responsible for breach of contract. As for how the company is doing; he's micromanaging, going on mass firings of management and R&D, and making it the service worse with each passing week. This would be a classic example of the Honeymoon phase of a business venture he will eventually lose interest in and sell or gut it. Remember purchases like those of a company like Twitter have limitations on how long the new owner must wait to turn around and sell it, change the brand/name, or close it down since the new owner must insure job security for so long to the employees of the company they acquired.
Unrelated to the content of your video -- which is excellent! -- I'm so glad to see someone who looks even somewhat like me covering a variety of topics. Thank you!
Never been on twitter and now I’m glad that I avoided the craze years ago
If Elon buys twitter I will continue to not use Twitter and will maintain my current lack of Twitter profile as protest. Strong measures, but necessary.
I deactivated my account when Musk made the claim that he was buying twitter, which to be fair was easy as I don't use it very often at all. It's a shame that Musk has really followed the path of the evil, power-hungry billionaire he was supposedly so different from, but honestly it's not surprising that he's doing all this. Innovation and ambition sure make odd bedfellows.
He founded the company PayPal, but the company PayPal is a reskin of the groundwork laid by an ukrainian-american software engineer. He did not create any of the actual code or design that is PayPal.
He's not the founder of Tesla, he was an early investor and bought his way into being granted retroactive founder status. His contribution to the company is investment and branding, not innovation.
He did actually found his passion project, SpaceX and made sure to staff it with exceptional talent. But let's not get it twisted... He's a businessman, not a rocket scientist.
Elon Musk doesn't innovate, he invests in innovation to profit from it, often complaining about the people doing the dirty work wanting to be fairly compensated and work reasonable hours. That has ALWAYS been the case, he hasn't changed or gotten worse. He's not a scrappy middleclass innovator that worked his way to the top, he's an entitled multi millionaires son that has a talent for branding and could easily take a lot of financial risks with the safety net of his parent's wealth.
@@KattReen yet he still succeeded in dragging the EV revolution forward. Do you really think that the major automakers would care about EVs if they weren't being outsold and outmaneuvered?
The internet already has a massive problem with targeted harassment. This would make things worse, not better. Also, thank you for your perspective on the Depp-Heard case. Platforms need to be able to regulate what's on them and stop antisocial behaviour. There's no way hoards of people should be able to inundate a professional's page with fake negative reviews because they're not happy with an opinion expressed as an expert witness.
It's really frustrating that there is no mechanism by which rulings and decisions must include definitions of the various components (like understanding the difference between "internet" and "websites") and can be technically rejected and revised if it is demonstrably incorrect. I'm sure arguments can be made in appeals or courts or whatever, but if it comes down to a judge/lawmaker interpreting via a deliberately bad-faith understanding of a technology or organization, they'd have no reason to take it back.
Seems like there needs to be some kind of superceding method by which a proper understanding of something needs to be explicitly integrated into their reasoning, right?
Except the people that would be making this rule, are the same people that hardly understand stuff 🙈
You make me really want to go to law school. I don't really have much interest in being a practicing lawyer, but I love school. If only it didn't cost a billion dollars. I only recently finished paying for my first time around.
Thank you for this wonderful introduction to the specifics of the first amendment! This was very helpful!
Your insight is absolutely fantastic ❤😊 thank you for the content you post!
Leeja! I’ve been obsessed with the Strict Scrutiny podcast since you mentioned it in your Roe v Wade livestream. ConLaw is sooo interesting to me and you and this podcast have really made me consider law school instead of a Public Policy Masters. Both might be unrealistic since I’m already 26 and I won’t graduate with my Economics undergrad until the end of the year, but I can dream 😭
Hey I'm almost 45 and thinking about going back to get a master's degree. I didn't finish undergrad until I was almost 31. It's never too late to seek higher education, if you feel passionate about it, and think you are up for the intense challenges of law school, you should do it! We need good people in the system
We are finding that the U.S. Constitution, and it's added amendments, is not the work of genius we've always treated it as. It was a document very much a product of the time it was written. Really needs and update/redo, but too many benefit from its vagueness.
My pocket copy of the constitution says “I can do whatever I want calm and I got it from Rush Limbaugh kids camp in the early 90s
Can't the internet providers just stop providing in Texas? Same thing woth social media policies. Can't Twitter and Facebook just decide they won't operate in Texas? It's a private business and if it's tol hard to operate there they can just cancel it there.
a year later:
o m f g
what a trainwreck
Thank you so much for this video !! 🙏
Speech that causes harm to others should be punished.
It already is - sometimes criminally, sometimes civilly.
But if it's only perceived harm - like Muslims and doodles of Muhammad, then HELL NO!
@@danielcortez2499 free speech is always necessary even if religious murderers don’t like it.
me, watching this video from the future, where people fleeing from dying tweeter to surprisingly alive and well tumblr.
Just watched this now, and it's honestly impress how prescient you were, after watching Elon drive Twitter/X into the ground. Yes, we all knew that he would be an idiot, but you really nailed it.
Its frightening to see someone I agree with on everything. We are so different.
The government: yes, give us all the private data so we can make sure you're using it properly.... Yes...
As a person who is professionally compelled to pay attention to the stock market - that's the best darn synopsis of what the stock market is in actuality.
If Americans are so set on having the same set of twenty five year olds run their Supreme Court until they are senior citizens or die from old age, they should allow the Court to bring in external experts to teach them what to do and how to understand these things.
To the degree we can be certain is the degree to which there are absolutes. And I'm not sure anyone can be absolutely certain of anything. I think I've matured from my age of certainty. This makes me think Musk has a great deal of growing up to do. Some never grow up. Thank you Ms Miller.
Can you image what would happen if private companies weren't allowed to infringe on people's first amendment?
I am Australian, living in Australia so First Amendment do not apply, yet we still have free speech (but limited by statute and common law, e.g. defamation law). What always amazes me about the U.S. and its citizens is the idea that freedom is absolute for you, but now and historically is limited for those you don’t like or see as a threat to you interests. These problems are universal. But how is it in anyone’s (except Tesla or Musk’s) to demand non-disclose on matters of employee safety or product safety or fit for purpose? Your correct in your assessment there always a balancing act between the rights of one versus others, but it seems to me people like Musk give themselves by virtue of their money and position god-like power to impose their world view on others. That’s a strange sort of freedom. Another question as an outsider, given the nature and state of modern American society, is your constitution fit for purpose? To me it seems not. And, lastly, I stopped using Twitter - too much spam, too many taking heads, bots, too much hate, too many events being peddled as today’s existential crisis.
Leeja that jingle at the end had me dancing on my grandma’s dinning room table like I stole it. ❤ I love it
So glad Twitter is collapsing. Now fingers crossed thread also fails.
Thank you. The more people speak out against Elon and his unethical practices the bigger the chances of people investing in his "inventions".
girl i just want to say KUDOS for you post about amber heard. I was disgusted when I saw all these people saying how crappy johnny depp is but don't hold him accountable for any of it. (has an ISLAND but does not donate money?, demands things from the people who work for him and is an asshole when he does not get what he wants. a few of them said that.) i love his work and i was always his fan and not hers. when i saw this trial, i was dumbfounded. they are 100% trying to discredit victims of abuse and scare them into not saying anything. CLEARLY she did not make all of that stuff up and they were just a toxic couple. hopefully she doesn't stop trying to tell the truth because at this point, it is her only option. to keep standing!
Well, the deal went through, it's a year later, and Twitter (now X) is a cesspool. You called it right.
For me it's been few days since the icon of twitter changed and I was like "the hell is this... oh Elon's new bullshit" and then the name of the app changed to X and I about lost it.
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Here we are 1 year later and we are waiting for this case to go before the most partisan supreme court in history.
Wish you had started with the amendment only applies to congress and federal government actors/ In fact, private entities and non-federal actors can infringe on speech in ways that goes beyond the exceptions
It applies to any federal or state actors! Which I said!
All I'm saying is this has aged incredibly
Love your Dutch French style chimney, and the sleeping dog
this is such a great spread of the situation, amazing writing as always, Miz Miller x3
If a law has more than 3 reinterpretations by court decisions, it is time to rewrite this law in order to limit the chaos.
Bad, Leeja, I feel bad about Musk taking over Twitter. I already deleted my account. I can't imagine ever using the platform again.
So I had this theory~~
Johnny Depp had sent that "global humiliation" text where he promised to ruin Amber, anyways in it he reallllly goes in on Elon Musk. Calls him a crooked d*ck, says he will slice off half of his d*ck and refers to him as "Mollusk". He ends the message 'lets see if mollusk has a pair!'
No doubt Elon Musk saw that when It came out in court.
Well during the UK investigation, it was found that Johnny Depps team launched one of the biggest cyber attacks on Twitter with THOUSANDS of bots aimed to spread anti-amber and pro-johnny posts and making hashtags trend in Depps favor to manipulate public opinion..
Then all of the sudden Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44bil ☠️☠️
Just an interesting coincidence
The key here is "the business model" and does it conform to the first fundamental functional principle of Democracy, which America isn't .
I.e. The first fundamental functional principle is to protect the population's rights while advancing their livability well-being, both as the individual and as a whole. Note that it excluded created non-living / voting entities e.g. political Parties, special interest groups, political parties, members of congress or judiciary, religions et al.
"stock market is just numbers and conjecture and gambling"
Did they really names their snacks... Peados? The might wanna rethink that 🤣
lolllll pea-tos, like cheetos made of pea. But.... yeah fair lol
This deal will never go through bc of bad financials. Musk is the "richest person in the world" but that's from Tesla and SpaceX valuations. Not actual liquid assets. It's why he needed to recruit other financial backers to come up with the $44b to buy Twitter. And he still needed to heavily leverage Tesla and SpaceX stock to do this. And those stocks are taking a real beating (moreso than the general market which as a whole is trending down). He's never actually go through with it, he'll make up some excuse about fake spam accts. Or lower the price to less than half of the original offer to try and force Twitter to walk away. But the real reason is bc Musk is not as rich as we think.
And being August 2023, we now know exactly what Twitter has become. Thanks to Elon. I personally deleted my account in like March when I heard rumors that he was going to start policing Democrat postings.
Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.
I replied to an Elon Musk tweet about the cost of twitter blue, because I live in the UK the price of twitter blue is £11 pm which with the exchange rate is still a lot more than the $7 charged in the US, the original tweet got over 11m views, my comment got 4, not 4m just 4 over a 2 hour period.
Musk would do better to just admit he wants twitter to be a platform where he and his friends can say what they like, then everyone can make the decision if they want to be on the platform.
I hate it that Musk has got me rooting for Zuckerberg, but here we are.
Any person Claiming that their will is the way to do things and does not ask the opinion of the population that person is a bad actor. Long ago I was a elon fan but now I have seen over the past 2 years more and more of his manipulation. I feel if you have over 5 million in the bank you should be labeled a prospector and be taxed as such. These folks hold the land, the money, the legislature. We don't need to listen to their out of touch class speech being veiled as a freedom thing. Us buying into the rhetoric literally defangs ourselves. We don't need to accept the situation they created for us.
I don’t need to break terms of service or subject the public to hate speech when posting the language I regularly use on a day-to-day basis or the viewpoints I would theoretically share on social media. Like… what do these people REALLY want to say that is so awful that the only defense for saying it is because they are *legally* allowed to? In every other sense it is despicable, inhumane, immoral, hateful and vile but oops! technically it’s legal! Just because you *can* do something doesn’t mean you should want to (let alone absolutely have to at all costs like some of these nut jobs think they do.) Some of these thoughts are *inside* thoughts, babe. You don’t want to be that person who gouges their eyes out with a melon baller just because you CAN. Although, if it came between doing that and spreading hate and misinformation then I’d honestly rather you go for the former because at least then you’re only harming yourself instead of others.
14:23 - ooh, yes please! I'd love to see a video about the shadow docket!
- your newest subscriber, having subbed after watching just one video -- you know, that comments were closed on, but where I absolutely agreed with your analysis, and am absolutely disgusted with others' reactions to things. Watching this now, definitely glad I subbed!
I wonder how much of that Texas law is going to hinge on property rights.
They could've changed that name Peatos. Saying that in public might get the police called. Sounds like they might be tasty but the name alone gave me a chuckle. And worry. 😂
But in all seriousness Musk only knows one speech, whatever he says goes and anything he doesn't like get silenced.
This person has Precognition or actually understands human nature very well, 1 year on and everything she said is spot on.
Watching this video after Elon bought Twitter was a pretty great experience 😂.
Wow - this was spot on
I hope Mr Husk just takes himself to space and stays there
Thank you this was excellent I learnt a lot. But one question why are private companies not subject to the first amendment? (Non -American here)
The First Amendment limits what the /government/ can do, not what a private company can do.
I wonder what private companies were like +200 years ago
I have never used Twitter and never will
Oh America, get your S together...Pls
thanks for the explanation.
He loves freedom of speech, just as long as it’s not one of his workers,
Cut to present day when Elon Musk has declared "cisgender" a slur. Real free-speech absolutist. 🙄🙄🙄
Yes!! Make a video about the shadow docket!
1st Amdt (Elon’s Version) is CRAZY
Love your vids, thank you so much. It'd be great to see a timely revisit/update on this one. :)
I am not a free speech absolutist because I regret nearly everything I think say or do. In cases of people who are well positioned or very successful this feeling is unlikely a shared experience
those pea cheese things are called... whatnow!?
That Texas law is insane. Platforms should just refuse Texan users
Basic human rights are insane?
How about instead, corporations go duck themselves.
Do a video on the “ shadow doc “ please
So gooooooood!