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No speech is suppressed where free speech is valued as a right, probably your case. You would find that porn and personal insults are not legal in many parts o
by hotdogscout 3y ago
No speech is suppressed where free speech is valued as a right, probably your case.
You would find that porn and personal insults are not legal in many parts of the world. The Chinese government has adopted a zero-tolerance policy toward so-called sexual content.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_China
To them it is offensive therefore illegal. Again, protecting offensive speech is the point behind free speech as a human right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
I don't know how those examples relate to my point. "protecting offensive speech is the point behind free speech as a human right."
- jakelazaroff 3y agoYou said: > If speech is not offensive it wouldn't be suppressed My point is that's not true, and it's trivial to find counterexamples. I listed a few in my comment.
- hotdogscout 3y agoDefamation is offensive, Spam is not suppressed speech(?).
- jakelazaroff 3y agoYou can defame a corporation, in which case there’s no one to take offense. As for spam: look up the long list of rules in the CAN-SPAM act, for example.