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> unfettered right to free speech in America I’m not aware of anyone calling for “unfettered” freedom of speech. Harassment is a crime and is illegal. Inciting
by prepend 6y ago
> unfettered right to free speech in America
I’m not aware of anyone calling for “unfettered” freedom of speech. Harassment is a crime and is illegal. Inciting violence is a crime and is illegal. Etc etc, yelling fire in theater, etc
When I think of free speech, I mean that people should not be persecuted for singular statements that are somehow synecdoche’d into trying to say a person is bad.
I’ve seen artists fired because they liked a tweet and someone said it offended them and then there was a spiral.
I’m not saying that we should allow people to say anything, but that we should not spend so much time trying to change people’s speech to what I want it to be like.