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Free speech means you can state and opinion and the government won’t put you in prison. That’s it, that’s all it is.
by thomasedwards 8y ago
Free speech means you can state and opinion and the government won’t put you in prison. That’s it, that’s all it is.
- firic 8y agoAnd companies that value free speech don't censor opinions regardless if them censoring is technically legal.
- tempodox 8y ago... and commercial entities will not be proponents of free speech, as long and as far as that's legal.
- trosi 8y agoIt's a bit more than that. Censorship violates freedom of speech, but it does not imply imprisonment
- humanrebar 8y agoNo, that's the first amendment. Free speech is also a broader principle that the first amendment applies by restricting government power.
- tgb 8y agoThank you! I feel like everyone forgot their middle school civics lessons, the amount I hear that line trotted out these days.