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So it's degrees of comfortable. Do I need to guess who gets to decide what's considered kosher in this regard? This is why we have hard rules about 1A. Being a

So it's degrees of comfortable. Do I need to guess who gets to decide what's considered kosher in this regard? This is why we have hard rules about 1A. Being able to define what's acceptable free speech just means the majority bullies the minority. Imagine a world where that's the case. Do you think MLK or any other civil rights leaders would've had a chance in hell of not being muzzle by the mainstream opinion of the day? 1A protected them, and when they were incorrectly arrested or muzzled, there were legions of lawyers ready to remind the government in court what the law says.

eyelidlessness 6y ago
> So it's degrees of comfortable No, it’s a moral judgment of the underlying cause and the actions taken. > Do I need to guess who gets to decide what's considered kosher in this regard? We’re all deciding it, every day. > This is why we have hard rules about 1A. Being able to define what's acceptable free speech just means the majority bullies the minority. Imagine a world where that's the case. I can also imagine a world where the minority bullies the majority. It’s the only one I’ve ever known. > Do you think MLK or any other civil rights leaders would've had a chance in hell of not being muzzle by the mainstream opinion of the day? > 1A protected them, and when they were incorrectly arrested or muzzled, there were legions of lawyers ready to remind the government in court what the law says. This is one of those times I wish HN allowed emojis. This is so laughably historically ignorant I don’t even know what to say. I’ll try: do you know how dead MLK and a bunch of other civil rights leaders got for their “protection”? Do you know that federal government agents and various state governments actively conspired with the people who’d make them dead? I mean, I take your point. The 1A is so expansive as to be nearly unlimited. That’s true. And it’s an important protection. Anyway all of that said, it has nothing to do with FB’s policy.

eyelidlessness 6y ago

> So it's degrees of comfortable No, it’s a moral judgment of the underlying cause and the actions taken. > Do I need to guess who gets to decide what's considered kosher in this regard? We’re all deciding it, every day. > This is why we have hard rules about 1A. Being able to define what's acceptable free speech just means the majority bullies the minority. Imagine a world where that's the case. I can also imagine a world where the minority bullies the majority. It’s the only one I’ve ever known. > Do you think MLK or any other civil rights leaders would've had a chance in hell of not being muzzle by the mainstream opinion of the day? > 1A protected them, and when they were incorrectly arrested or muzzled, there were legions of lawyers ready to remind the government in court what the law says. This is one of those times I wish HN allowed emojis. This is so laughably historically ignorant I don’t even know what to say. I’ll try: do you know how dead MLK and a bunch of other civil rights leaders got for their “protection”? Do you know that federal government agents and various state governments actively conspired with the people who’d make them dead? I mean, I take your point. The 1A is so expansive as to be nearly unlimited. That’s true. And it’s an important protection. Anyway all of that said, it has nothing to do with FB’s policy.