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Yeah it's like that old xkcd mouseover text : "I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is so
by sweezyjeezy 10y ago
Yeah it's like that old xkcd mouseover text : "I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express."
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/free_speech.png http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/free_speech.png
- acheron 10y agoI think that's a good example though maybe in the opposite way you intended. Censorious asshats like to conflate the principle of free speech with legality in order to continue being censorious asshats, which that comic is basically endorsing by pretending that "free speech" is only a legal concept.