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Like everything else in life, blanket rules don't hold up to the messy reality of the real world. "Free speech" doesn't mean you should enable people to say li
by cowpig 6y ago
Like everything else in life, blanket rules don't hold up to the messy reality of the real world.
"Free speech" doesn't mean you should enable people to say literally anything.
At the extreme: direct credible physical threats on peoples' safety. These are explicitly illegal.
A bit less extreme: statements in indirect support of physical threats on groups of people, e.g. neonazis. The USA chooses not to govern these legally, but instead the responsibility becomes that of the people.
For example, many would argue (rightly) that it's Facebook's responsibility as a de facto news platform not to distribute/publish that kind of speech.