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> Getting someone fired, cancelling their appearances at universities and other public events, blacklisting them from academia None of these are restricting so

> Getting someone fired, cancelling their appearances at universities and other public events, blacklisting them from academia None of these are restricting someone's freedom of speech. It's the same badly constructed talking point over and over again.

twblalock 4y ago
Of course those things restrict speech for that person -- and they cause a chilling effect for anyone else who might want to say the same things. You might as well also say that jailing people for their speech doesn't infringe on freedom of speech, because that is a consequence of speech they already made. But that's a very narrow (and ahistorical) view of what freedom of speech really means. We can lean on the Wikipedia definition here: "Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction."