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With respect, no speech should be illegal, regardless of how absurd, abhorrent, or inaccurate the speech is to anyone. Free speech is fundamental to a truly fre
by gshixman 5y ago
With respect, no speech should be illegal, regardless of how absurd, abhorrent, or inaccurate the speech is to anyone. Free speech is fundamental to a truly free society, full stop.
- beebmam 5y agoYou disagree with your own statement and you don't even know it! "No speech should be illegal" - should I be able to threaten people then? That's speech. Should I be able to detail my plans for how I'm going to commit a crime? That's speech. Should I be able to scream at the top of my lungs in a public space? Should I be able to use a loudspeaker to broadcast my voice (or an advertisement) to drown out all other sound in a public space? It sounds nice what you're saying, but it's not what you actually believe, so I kindly ask you to argue less in bad faith.
- z33k 5y agoYou're right. We should make exceptions to free speech only for recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally: -making unreasonable noise and continuing to do so after being asked to stop -disrupting a lawful assembly of persons -speech made for the principal purpose of creating panic -if the speaker intends to incite a violation of the law that is both imminent and likely. My solution to the original problem would be to make it technologically unfeasible to solve. The architecture of the communication platform should be constrained in such a way that operators & owners are unable to make choices about which speech to include. This is because nobody is equipped to solve this problem, and nobody should be forced to do anything to try and solve it.