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Ok I'll bite: how is "you are free say what you want but you may have to face a firing squad" and different in experience to "you cannot say any of these things
by pinkfoot 6y ago
Ok I'll bite: how is "you are free say what you want but you may have to face a firing squad" and different in experience to "you cannot say any of these things, if you do you will face a firing squad" ?
The whole POINT of 'free speech' is that there are no consequences.
(And no you shouldn't be allowed to shout 'fire' in a theatre).
- throwanem 6y agoYour last two statements contradict one another, but also make clear that you recognize your appeal to absurdity for what it is. Do you think no one else will?
- pinkfoot 6y agoEr, because I am not a supporter of unfettered free speech. But I also wont bend the definition either. That’s where the problems start.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Ok I'll bite: how is "you are free say what you want but you may have to face a firing squad" That's not the consequence here. The consequence is “other private parties might choose not to relay your speech or continue association with you, exercising their own rights to free speech and association.” Me not allowing you to use my resources to magnify the reach of your message isn't analogous to the state subjecting you to capital punishment. > The whole POINT of 'free speech' is that there are no consequences. No, the whole point is that the state doesn't have their thumb on the scale, allowing ideas to succeed or fail by their ability, or not, to attract support from private actors. Legislation in which the state intervenes to prevent private consequences through the exercise of free speech are not only on their face contrary to free speech, but sabotage the operation of the marketplace of ideas.
- anthony_romeo 6y agoDoes Twitter have firing squads?