Musk’s X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called
arstechnica.com
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
      61·
      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.

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        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.

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Somewhere an Elon fanboy is explaining why this is peak free speech

      This gives off such a movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” vibe.

    • Pohl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      It is free speech as I would define it. The UAW had decided foolishly to communicate on a platform run by and for right wing reactionaries. Those asshats are free to moderate however they like, it’s their platform.

      Stop using twitter you idiots! Using twitter gives legitimacy to the platform. The platform’s spreads nazi hate speech. What possible excuse does the UAW have for giving legitimacy to a nazi platform???

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        In the land of morons, I reasonable person reads the articles and finds this:

        To be fair, the Arstechnica article doesn’t mention this, the Intercept article that Arstechnica refers to does, and most people usually don’t read double article in deep before commenting.