{"id":80480,"date":"2022-04-28T08:30:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T13:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=80480"},"modified":"2022-04-28T08:30:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T13:30:25","slug":"80480","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=80480","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.joehuffman.org\/2022\/04\/28\/quote-of-the-day-ammal-hassan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quote of the day\u2014Ammal Hassan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ammal Hassan<br \/>\nApril 26, 2022<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/lifestyle\/lifestyle-buzz\/what-the-hell-does-elon-want-with-twitter-anyway\/ar-AAWCIgR\">What The Hell Does Elon Want With Twitter Anyway?<\/a><br \/>\nReally? Musk has repeatedly said it\u2019s because Twitter has been hostile to free speech. He has literally said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1519073003933515776<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">By \u201cfree speech\u201d, I simply mean that which matches the law. <\/p>\n<p>I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law. <\/p>\n<p>If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1519036983137509376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\ude80\ud83d\udcab\u2665\ufe0f Yesss!!! \u2665\ufe0f\ud83d\udcab\ud83d\ude80 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0T9HzUHuh6\">pic.twitter.com\/0T9HzUHuh6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1518677066325053441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1517215066550116354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And authenticate all real humans<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1517215736606957573?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1507777261654605828<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Despite all that, this bozo Hassan can\u2019t imagine free speech being the real reason.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From reading some the comments to various threads about the buyout it is very clear that many people are vehemently opposed to free speech. They come close to predicting the end of the world if people are allowed to spread \u201cdisinformation, conspiracy theories, and hate speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is incredibly willful ignorance or, more likely in many cases, deliberate evil.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cend of the world\u201d is much more likely to occur if we\u00a0<em><strong>don\u2019t<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0have free speech. The suppression of free speech is the mark of authoritarianism. It enables corruption, gulags, and genocide.<\/p>\n<p>This is why we have the 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0Amendment. It protects the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Amendment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quote of the day\u2014Ammal Hassan Ammal Hassan April 26, 2022 What The Hell Does Elon Want With Twitter Anyway? Really? Musk has repeatedly said it\u2019s because Twitter has been hostile to free speech. He has literally said: https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1519073003933515776 By \u201cfree speech\u201d, I simply mean that which matches the law. I am against censorship that goes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=80480\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,24,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-rights","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80481,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80480\/revisions\/80481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}