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[–] 9 points 3 years ago (5 children)
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    I would claim actual free speech absolutists don't exist.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago*

    You're probably since those that preach about free speech are politically driven, hence biased to protect their stance. Rest of us have realized speech isn't free of consequence and the last third just doesn't give a fuck.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Defamation, fraud, hate speech, harassment, collusion, confidentiality, incitement...

    No reasonable person actually thinks that free speech is an unlimited right. Plenty of kinds of speech are viewed as too harmful to be legal. The right is well understood to be about political speech only, and even then the edge cases can be hard to pin.

    Anyone who claims to be an absolutist on free speech is insane or absolutely full of shit.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Didn’t he also give in to block a few accounts of political opponents in Turkey instead of risking being banned there completely, because he said it would be better to lose a few accounts instead of losing the whole country?

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