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Yes, the Biden Administration's promulgation of a Title IX interpretation that, among other things, would have compelled certain kinds of speech: https://speec

Yes, the Biden Administration's promulgation of a Title IX interpretation that, among other things, would have compelled certain kinds of speech: https://speechfirst.org/case/title-ix/ https://speechfirst.org/case/title-ix/ One example of many: it would have been a punishable offense to refuse to use someone's preferred pronouns.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF 1y ago
Are you injured if you can't misgender someone?
- NoImmatureAdHom 1y ago
  Compelled speech is a bright line the U.S. has, so far, managed not to cross. We should be trying as hard as we can not to cross that line. You may not see the harm in this particular instance, but establishing "we'll just force them to say it and punish them if they don't" as a tool in any government's toolbox is a very, very bad idea.
  - dem_bones 1y ago
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- kjksf 1y ago
  Yes, to the extent that any violation of constitution injures me. Forcing me to say things I don't want to say under threat of punishment violates first amendment. It's been litigated and so concluded. The fact that it's the 1st amendment indicates that founding fathers thought that it is indeed the greatest injury us government can inflict on us citizens.
  - throwup238 1y ago
    > The fact that it's the 1st amendment indicates that founding fathers thought that it is indeed the greatest injury us government can inflict on us citizens. By that argument the greatest injury that they were addressing was a weak central government that couldn’t provide for the security and financing of the state. It’s literally called the first amendment because the Bill of Rights was an addendum to the constitution.
  - joshuamorton 1y ago
    Do you think that, to use this site's language, it would be a 1A violation to create a rule under which > students can be reported for merely expressing their opinions about controversial political and social issues of the day or even if they prefer not to express support for American political allies and wars they may not support
- mlrtime 1y ago
  So some speech is freer than others? Is there any case where you are required to use a form of speech otherwise be punished?
dem_bones 1y ago
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01HNNWZ0MV43FF 1y ago

Are you injured if you can't misgender someone?

NoImmatureAdHom 1y ago
Compelled speech is a bright line the U.S. has, so far, managed not to cross. We should be trying as hard as we can not to cross that line. You may not see the harm in this particular instance, but establishing "we'll just force them to say it and punish them if they don't" as a tool in any government's toolbox is a very, very bad idea.
- dem_bones 1y ago
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kjksf 1y ago
Yes, to the extent that any violation of constitution injures me. Forcing me to say things I don't want to say under threat of punishment violates first amendment. It's been litigated and so concluded. The fact that it's the 1st amendment indicates that founding fathers thought that it is indeed the greatest injury us government can inflict on us citizens.
- throwup238 1y ago
  > The fact that it's the 1st amendment indicates that founding fathers thought that it is indeed the greatest injury us government can inflict on us citizens. By that argument the greatest injury that they were addressing was a weak central government that couldn’t provide for the security and financing of the state. It’s literally called the first amendment because the Bill of Rights was an addendum to the constitution.
- joshuamorton 1y ago
  Do you think that, to use this site's language, it would be a 1A violation to create a rule under which > students can be reported for merely expressing their opinions about controversial political and social issues of the day or even if they prefer not to express support for American political allies and wars they may not support
mlrtime 1y ago
So some speech is freer than others? Is there any case where you are required to use a form of speech otherwise be punished?

dem_bones 1y ago

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