| ▲ | zdragnar an hour ago | |
He wasn't thrown in jail, the organizers of a private event removed him. This has nothing to do whatsoever with free speech. I'd expect better from a middle school debate team than this sophistry. | ||
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
> This has nothing to do whatsoever with free speech Freedom of speech is a philosophical concept broader than the First Amendment. The conference organizers broke their own code of conduct to censor this article’s distribution. That violates principles of free speech. If they did it at the behest of a government official, that would be a First Amendment issue. We don’t have any evidence of that right now, but it isn’t a question which has been seriously investigated yet. | ||
| ▲ | noelsusman an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
They removed him due to fear of reprisal from the federal government. How could that have nothing to do with free speech? | ||