Dexter’s Laboratory did a great D&D episode in 1997.

“We’re your typical Hollywood family: one girlboss, one wife guy, one nepo baby.”

I live in a country where most women and girls go topless on the beach and it’s no big deal, so this seems like a bit of a storm in a teacup. Although, of course, if teenagers were coerced to do something against their wishes, that is definitely an issue that needs to be addressed. But 500 million? Wow.

And you think you’re on the left?

This thread about the philosophy behind the concept free expression, not the legal limits of the First Amendment. Keep up.

tl; dr— it is weird to be celebrating corporations doing the right thing, when the only reason they’re doing what's morally just is “how much money do we stand to lose or gain from doing this?”

Why do so many goddamn grown adults not understand that the philosophical discussion around free speech is bigger than the First fucking Amendment? And why do they not understand that a company’s terms of service could absolutely be a threat to your free speech?

Right— if we’re going to argue that the internet at this point is essentially a public utility and one of it’s most useful aspects is fostering communication, there’s going to be issues with the only folks in control of the ability to communicate being unregulated private corporations. We’re already reaching a point…

It is certainly a threat to your free speech. It’s just not constitutionally protected. But when both political parties start dictating what social media can (or should) do, it becomes a bit dire.

Exactly.

Ah.

I think you may be misunderstanding a bit how this stuff works. What we have here is a snippet of legally vetted description of the incident. What actually happened, in context, likely made someone feel uncomfortable (or objectified or threatened) enough that the people in the know saw it as a fireable offense.

No…

Ok the person calling out pearl-clutching is drawing a direct line between “a slap is an act of violence” and racism.

Smith for me has inhabited the same space as Tom Cruise for a number of years now. I presume they are actual flesh and blood but they barely resemble recognizable human beings, and are so walled off that whatever we see of them in public is a staged and scripted performance.

Reminds me of a varsity quarterback getting caught drunk driving and being put on academic probation as of the day after playoffs.

Personally, I think he got off too easy. That’s a rather light penance for publicly battering another person for no other reason than your wife can’t take a joke. On the other hand, I hope I can learn to love Will Smith again at some point. I think that bothers me as much as anything; I was a huge fan of the man for…

You know what they say, “Tragedy is when I suffer a mental break down. Comedy is when a C-list movie star suffers a mental break down and yells about how an internet poll deemed him in the greatest “cheer moment” of film history while the police drag him out of a flop house in Hawaii”

That’s not confusion, that’s just habit, and while it’s not ideal, I’d agree that’s likely not bigoted. Expressing wonder over the concept of “they”, however, doesn’t pass that test.

The alternatives are even more obnoxious

For sure they're not mutually exclusive! The one thing that unites all humans is we have both assholes and the potential to be assholes.