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You have just established that > There is no "buts" regarding freedom. Is false. People have freedom of speech, but -- "but" -- not freedom to libel people, f

• glenstein 6y ago
  Exactly. There's a familiar pattern to this debate. Someone categorically declares there can't be any exceptions to free speech. Inevitably, someone brings up a counterexample. Then the original person replies that it doesn't count, because it's not speech and there's a different word for what it is. Libel, incitement, terrorism, whatever word is needed to cover the example. But in doing that, you've carved out a category for things that are excluded from protections afforded to speech. Then the next thread comes around, someone declares there's no exceptions to speech, and the cycle continues.