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We don’t measure Freedom of Speech by some test of how much Social Good is created by various types of speech. These rights were enumerated in a time when peop
by oceanplexian 3y ago
We don’t measure Freedom of Speech by some test of how much Social Good is created by various types of speech.
These rights were enumerated in a time when people distributed pamphlets that led to a bloody revolutionary war. War is a hell of a lot worse for the social fabric than “some fake nudes got distributed on the Internet”.
- UncleMeat 3y agoThe founders passed the Alien and Sedition Acts and various other laws that we'd now consider extreme limitations on political speech. Whatever free speech means today, it isn't derived from the core beliefs of the founders.