A professor in California opposes Elon Musk's vision of freer speech on Twitter. Why? Because, according to this article he wrote, free speech leads to loss of freedom, to dictator control. Wha . . ?
His reasoning ability is buried by his political emotion. Referring to free speech, he says "That’s Musk’s dream . . . And the dream of every dictator, strongman, demagogue and modern-day robber baron on Earth."
Wait . . is free speech the dream-come-true of a dictator? Do dictators make sure that all dissenters are free to criticize them? Certainly not. Power to censor dissenting speech almost defines dictatorship, and everybody knows this. Actually, dictators do what the Twitter board does: silence speech they don't like!
How does a college professor get away with publishing unreasonable nonsense like this? He's probably intelligent, an expert in something. But he abandoned common sense on this issue, and just a tiny bit of thought makes that so obvious.
Don't be intimidated by any "expert." Never surrender your own common sense.
from Guardian
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