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> Your free expression can suppress my freedom of expression How does even harmful speech (e.g. your examples) prevent your freedom of expression?
by scarmig 4y ago
> Your free expression can suppress my freedom of expression
How does even harmful speech (e.g. your examples) prevent your freedom of expression?
- croes 4y agoEver heard of bullying? You don't need physical force for that.
- BlueDingo 4y agoBullying is an additional level of action, right? If you're using a different verb it probably also means additional actions that aren't simply speech. I dislike bad stuff too. Bullying is wrong and should be stopped. Hate speech is also wrong but I'll defend people's right to speak.
- version_five 4y ago"Bullying" is actually a great example of something that once we decide the concept is bad, there is a rush from people to frame everything they don't like along those lines. I'd suggest that under the blanket and nebulous headline of "bullying" are actions that are already illegal like harassment and assault.
- adamredwoods 4y ago>> How does even harmful speech (e.g. your examples) prevent your freedom of expression? Fear, threat of property and physical harm.
- yucky 4y agoSo...eat the rich? Seize the means of production? ACAB? Things like that qualify?
- willnonya 4y agoThat is not the same thing though is it. People today fear being socially ostracized or losing a career over crossing an undefined or subjective line. Neither of these fears are the same as actually preventing someone from expressing their views. When threats become actual violence there are already laws to address that. Trying to preemptively protect people from mean words invariably harms more people than it purports to protect.
- croes 4y ago>When threats become actual violence Only physical violence or does psychological violence count too? What about cyberbullying and mobbing?