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Explicit threats, defamation, calls to violence, harassment, inciting riots, fighting words … these have a legal precedent for the reason that cause and effect
by whiddershins 5y ago
Explicit threats, defamation, calls to violence, harassment, inciting riots, fighting words … these have a legal precedent for the reason that cause and effect are traceable.
By the same token, ‘cancellation’ if it leads to loss of livelihood etc. is questionable.
Being offended or hurt by someone’s words are much harder to quantify.
- Latty 5y agoSo freedom of speech should be limited if you could cause someone to lose their job? So I go to a shop, and the employee calls me a piece of shit, I could be arrested for telling their boss that they were rude?
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]