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Neither drugs nor consumer products are speech.
by Turing_Machine 4y ago
Neither drugs nor consumer products are speech.
- pixl97 4y agoIs code speech or action? If you're old, you say speech. If you're younger and watch any integration modern technology into life, you'd say both. But at the end of the day, your viewpoint doesn't matter. What does matter is when the 'average person' feels unsafe by this 'informational speech' as you like to call it, that it will be banned and restricted and you will be punished under the full force of the law for trafficking in it. Your neighbors will cheer as you're dragged out of your house by a swat team for being an evil terrorist. SCOTUS will make whatever finding is politically expedient for the majority parties point of view that is the majority at the time, and you will rot in prison until you die of old age. So, your choices are attempting to setup a regulatory framework to minimize the dystopian hellscape your ideas will create or embrace the dystopian hellscape.
- Turing_Machine 4y ago> Your neighbors will cheer as you're dragged out of your house by a swat team for being an evil terrorist. You have a cite for this actually happening with respect to a work of art in the United States in recent years?
- oriolid 4y agoI'm quite sure it is not "speech" in the sense they knew when freedom of speech laws were written.
- Turing_Machine 4y agoI'm quite sure that visual art has been recognized as having First Amendment coverage for well over a century.
- oriolid 4y agoI'm confused, was the discussion about software or visual art? Anyway, I'd recommend posting something considered criminally offensive in your location (I'm sure you can think of something) and seeing how far free speech gets you.