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> Censorship of those who seek to oppress I suppose one could argue that this amounts to a threat of violence, which is a form of limited speech. I am not free
by api 5y ago
> Censorship of those who seek to oppress
I suppose one could argue that this amounts to a threat of violence, which is a form of limited speech. I am not free to make bodily threats of violence toward other named individuals. Threatening positive rights is threatening force, so it definitely gets at least near to that line.
- zaarn 5y agoIt doesn't have to be force at the start. If a politician were to run on the platform "no free speech for poor people", obviously they're not applying force or threatening it. And even when elected, they threaten no force, they simply remove a right from the law. At no point did they threaten force against poor people, only that their free speech be taken away. They got elected and are doing it non-violently. Now poor people no longer have free speech. Hence, either you must treat a threat against free speech as violence unconditionally of it's physical or psychological component (ie if it has a legal component) or you must acknowledge that free speech can be threatened by non-violent oppression.