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nsci2ece t1_jdrghmq wrote

Whatever one thinks of free speech laws, this is a sovereign country and to operate there, a company has to abide by their rules and regulations.

E.g. If you want to operate in Japan you must have Japanese language labeling on your products and if you have a problem with that, you have the freedom to simply not serve the Japanese market.

Don't agree with Australian hate speech laws? Don't operate in Australia. Simple as that.

Friendly reminder that Twitter's current owner is a huge fan of the mainland Chinese market btw.

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TJR843 t1_jdrfpn2 wrote

If personal gain is the only factor in your decision making, then that says a whole hell of a lot about you as a person. Knowing that opening an airbnb, or raising the rent exorbitantly will hurt your neighbors and that neighborhood as a whole and doing it anyway is nothing short of disgusting and immoral.

Housing isn't a want, people need to have a roof over their heads. Turning single family dwellings into the equivalent of a single hotel room is simply bad for society. You wanna go be a hotelier? Go open a hotel.

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joeysflipphone t1_jdrfmxa wrote

Twitter saw a nearly 500% increase in use of the N-word in the 12-hour window immediately following the shift of ownership to Musk. Within the following week, tweets including the word “Jew” had increased fivefold since before the ownership transfer.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2022/11/23/why-is-elon-musks-twitter-takeover-increasing-hate-speech/

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/02/tech/twitter-hate-speech/index.html

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