Musk’s X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called
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After a report called out Musk's union-busting, UAW's blue check got reinstated.

X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called::After a report called out Musk’s union-busting, UAW’s blue check got reinstated.

  • SendMePhotos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    1 year ago

    I mean technically it’s the free speech of Elon to do whatever with his company, right? Like how the Colorado photographer didn’t have to provide services to gays and how Amazon is no longer allowing BLM.

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      When the savior of humanity declared he was a “free speech absolutist” people misinterpreted his meaning.

      He meant that he should have absolute authority over who should have free speech.

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      1 year ago

      I mean technically it’s the free speech

      Legally, yes. Ethically, definitely no.

      How most of society uses that term is not in the legal way, but in the ethical way, which is a topic all on its own; a weird disconnect.

          • Case@unilem.orgEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Tell that to, I dunno, everyone else.

            They certainly think so.

            I’ve been wary of corporations since I first read Neuromancer.

      • seitanic@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        And you get these smooth-brain takes like “Only the government can take away your free speech” because people think that “freedom of speech” and “the First Amendment” are one and the same.