It kinda does. Otherwise, what you're advocating is State Censorship.

The 1st Amendment, as written, isn't just the right to speak but to publish and proselytize and (critically) assemble. You do not merely have the right to speak, but the right to be heard. You cannot be kept out of public spaces because of your personal opinions or expressed beliefs. You cannot be denied peers to hear you on the grounds that too many people with the same opinion constitute a hazard. And you cannot be squelched strictly on the grounds of an ideological dispute.

Obviously, this is the letter of the law and not the spirit of it. When written, the provision didn't extend to women or children or enslaved people or native people or Jews and Catholics. But over time, populations updated the enforcement and expanded provisions, such that it did include all of the above so long as you weren't saying anything to mark you out as an Enemy of the State.

shrug We have a set of beliefs and we have a set of actual policies. The gulf between is the contradiction that modern imperialism creates.

In Canada its not freedom of speech but rather freedom of expression when the expression doesn't infringe on others' freedom from hate which I'm so much happier with. Why the fuck Americans celebrate their freedom to be a nazi or whatever makes absolutely zero sense to me

Hopefully I can cunningham's law a more intelligent response, but libel and defamation aren't "illegal" as in the police will arrest you for it, it's a civil violation, so the target of that libel would have to sue you for it.

Different countries have different bars for proving defamation. Famously, British media avoids calling drunk people drunk, and instead uses "tired and emotional" or similar, because if you say someone was drunk, but you can't prove it, you are liable if they sue. Contrast that to the US, where if you sue someone for calling you drunk, you have to prove that they would know that they are lying.

Both methods are subject to abuse, but since suing costs money, it's more often a weapon of the privileged, so I prefer the US method.

Yes, free speech is just about beeing able to voice your political opinion

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Roight! Off ta gaol with ye lad!

Literally 😔

Clearly not, since he was famously illiterate. But they say you are what you eat, so Idk Amin was definitely an intellectual