Pfft

Nah he didn't.

The BBC reporter got bounced into making a generalisation, then was asked to name a specific within that (which he'd not be able to do, ethically, in the forum in which he was speaking).

The segue back into the general from that was nonsensical.

The axioms from which the argument was started (freedom of speech) mean different things in the UK than in the US.

There's no right here to freedom of speech - and anywhere there is, there is also the responsibility that comes with saying whatever you have said, or providing the platform for doing so.

This has got wildly out of tilt in the digital age. And Musk has got riled about doxing.

The bloke has a knack for taking risks with other people's money (usually governments) and appears to now believe his own spiel, which also appears to be going badly for him.

Any of these tiny number of uber successful guys are awful role models as the massive risks have paid off for them, but there's a similar (ginormous) trail of almost identical people who got unlucky on the toss of their coins and are now destitute.

It's like taking a sample of 1000 people who are calling heads or tails and having them all do so repeatedly, then, as the numbers whittle down trying to give kudos to the last two or three standing.

Posted By: Cardiff Canary on April 13th 2023 at 17:45:36

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