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Freedom of speech for speech you hate is also a social principle - see the ACLU Klan cases. Principles aren't supposed to be easy to keep, otherwise they're ho
by throwayyy479087 4y ago
Freedom of speech for speech you hate is also a social principle - see the ACLU Klan cases.
Principles aren't supposed to be easy to keep, otherwise they're hobbies.
- bioemerl 4y agoI don't understand how anyone reading someone saying something like this doesn't immediately picture some government organization with an authoritarian leader holding the exact same value while considering dissenters a harm to their society.
- phillipcarter 4y agoConsidering DDoS is illegal where I live, no, nobody has the right to do that here! What does that have to do with Kiwi Farms?
- phillipcarter 4y agoI agree! KF is expressing their speech just as freely as they did before. But less of society is choosing to support that speech. What do you see wrong with that?
- squeaky-clean 4y agoFreedom of Speech also means Cloudflare doesn't have to host anyone it doesn't want to.
- dmix 4y agoFreedom of speech is a cultural value, it's not something strictly defined by the US constitution. It's the reason there is a constitution not the other way around.
- squeaky-clean 4y agoThere's a lot of incorrect things in this, but to address the incorrect thing most relevant to this discussion: What you are asking for is called compelled speech. If what you think "free speech" is were true, the government could force newspapers and online news websites to publish articles written by the government that they do not agree with.
- UncleMeat 4y agoThe ACLU also protected racial minorities and queer groups. The "free speech absolutists" who come out in force to protect organizations like KF rarely do that.