| ▲ | lolurnt 3 hours ago | |||||||
Lol. You're not anywhere close to a free speech absolutist. Large online social spaces are public spaces and are given legal protections and exceptions because of it. And free speech has nothing to do with the law, it's an ethical principle, and using some swarmy psudo intellectual gotcha technical point tells me you actualky have nothing in your heart for true free speech, just another yahoo who wants to say everything they like is free speech and anything not is some sort of other speech -- hate speech, misinformation, fake news, whatever the moniker of the day is, you either let people speak without censoring them, or you are just another bigot. | ||||||||
| ▲ | ses1984 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
Free speech does exist in the law, not just as an ethical ideal. The law states that the government can’t infringe on your speech. Anyone who is not the government is free to block your ass if they don’t like you or what you’re saying. Not all speech is worth defending. The only people who benefit from free speech absolutism are the ones with only horrible things to say. | ||||||||
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