Elon Musk is trying to silence Microsoft employees who criticize Charlie Kirk

"I believe the rights enshrined in the 1st amendment applies to everybody I agree with."

First Amendment guards against state repercussions for speech, with exceptions. Careful not to conflate the legal and colloquial usages.
- Which is why everyone needs to get off of twitter. Especially government accounts.
- “I’m going to use Congressional authority and every influence with big tech platforms to mandate immediate ban for life of every post or commenter that belittled the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I’m also going after their business licenses and permitting, their businesses will be blacklisted aggressively, they should be kicked from every school, and their drivers licenses should be revoked. I’m basically going to cancel with extreme prejudice these evil, sick animals who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination.”
  Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA)

So, he wants to make it so just criticizing Charlie Kirk is off limits, now?

Lol! Wut? I thought this guy told everyone he was a "free speech absolutist". What a clown.

Without exception, "free speech absolutists" just want to say a specific brand of horrid shit themselves without social blowback. It never applies to free speech as a legal concept, and certainly never applies to speech they disagree with.
His stance on free speech has been well established for a long time now. He champions free speech so long as it's his speech. Any speech that disagrees with him is, in fact, itself an affront to free speech.

Shut the fuck up, Elon. We'll be celebrating your death, as well.

I'll celebrate his even more
Maybe that why he wants to stop this, in the hopes someone will do the same for him.
- Ding ding ding!

wE hAtE cAnCeL cUlTuRe aNd lOvE fReE sPeEcH

Elon Musk hates free speech.

How does … he… have any authority over Microsoft employees… you know what I’ll just read the article

Elon Musk controls a rabid lynch-mob. That is how he has any authority.

*Free speech **absolutist

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**absolutely horseshit*

This is really a much more interesting article:

https://www.theverge.com/policy/776840/charlie-kirk-death-social-media-jawboning

I was going to quote segments but it's really worth reading the whole thing. Senators shitting all over the first amendment and quotes from Charlie Kirk shitting all over them in return.

This!
Thanks for sharing. I wanted to pick up some quotes, but holy shit!

OY

This fuckin' timeline

Elon Musk should be next IMO.

That means he's very afraid

Musk, name people around the world would perforate you if they had the chance. Better hide in your bunker

Perhaps if he stoepped into Charlie's shoes.......

What has this have to do with technology? Wishing someone else is the next one.

People really don’t like either of those guys.

Musk should go into hiding.

There’s no coming back from where he is.

I always thought i was left, but seeing how a lot of people on the left gleefully react to someone’s assasination makes me wonder if i’m actually left.

I don’t mourn Charlie Kirk’s passing, i never liked him. But i certainly don’t celebrate his murder either. Anyone who does should be put in a mental asylum as far as i’m concerned. They certainly have mental health problems.

If you’re basing whether or not you’re “left” on anecdotal evidence of some leftists celebrating his death, you probably weren’t very left to begin with.
- Fair enough. I suppose i should call myself “center”. Neither left nor right.
You don't understand why people would celebrate the death of someone that wanted them dead?
I always thought i was left, but seeing how a lot of people on the left gleefully react to someone’s assasination makes me wonder if i’m actually left.
I don’t mourn Benito Mussolini's passing, i never liked him. But i certainly don’t celebrate his murder either. Anyone who does should be put in a mental asylum as far as i’m concerned. They certainly have mental health problem
- Comparing Charlie Kirk to Mussolini…
  Yeah, i stand with my comment. You need better mental health care.
I feel like you but I also feel kirk should be treated a bit by his own preachings. He said empathy is weakness and bad policy and not a virtue. He said gun deaths are worth it for the second amendment. He said families should bring their children to witness executions. All these things he said are embodied in his fate. If anyone ever died in a way that embraces their own words it is him.
- What you mentioned is exactly why i didn’t like him. But i also don’t support the death penalty, and i firmly believe in due process. He got the death penalty without a fair trial. For me it’s as simple as that. And that’s not how democracy works in my book.
  He was a conservative right wing political activist, but some people are comparing him to Mussolini even. Like WTF! And just because he didn’t believe in empathy doesn’t mean i shouldn’t either.
  Fo i think the world is better without certain people? Sure! Do i think assasinating them is the way to go? No.
  And yeah, i’m a gay man. I’m well aware of his views about that. I choose to be civilized though.
Great idea! All magats will be treated by doctors then
- They’re equally as bad, yes.
Confused idiots like you will be the end of the USA.

Ted Cruz: Getting a little hot in here, isn't it AOC?

AOC: Only for MAGAs, Ted.

Free speech…so long as we agree.

Awful bait TheVerge. Appropriate headline:

Gamergate/Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda/RMVP 2.0 want to control Blizzard gooners from free speech&press.⛓️‍💥

Mark Kern hasn't tasted a .305, because he lives in best🇰🇷.