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Free speech is an ideal that doesn't really exist. Even in the USA I can't threaten to kill you or announce that a bomb is in the building.

• imiric 5y ago
  Free speech must have sane boundaries drawn at some arbitrary level. Death threats and terrorism surely go beyond what should be acceptable.
  • deltaonefour 5y ago
    Then it's not free speech. It's speech with sane boundaries. Calling it free is a lie. You are conflating the ideals of free speech and trying to merge it with realistic expectations. The reality is free speech does not work.
    • imiric 5y ago
      We can label it something else then, but I agree that absolute free spech does not work.
      • deltaonefour 5y ago
        "absolute free speech" lol. If I used Free wifi at starbucks and before I left the clerk tried to charge me a dollar for internet because it wasn't "absolutely free" then I would call it false advertising. Don't use the words free and speech together if it's not "absolutely free."