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well that's why in good old America we've discovered how to innovate in the area of making free speech useless. when you have a small but fervent religious pop
by batgaijin 14y ago
well that's why in good old America we've discovered how to innovate in the area of making free speech useless.
when you have a small but fervent religious population that takes any criticism as 'an attack on free speech' it marginalizes whatever the actual issue may be; when any issue can be trumped up to a philosophical issue instead of a pragmatic and factual one.
- anigbrowl 14y agoThis is exactly my issue. It's not acceptable to say you want to infringe upon speech, but it's perfectly OK to advocate torture, death, imprisonment or suchlike for people you don't like. Of course, such actions are also restrictive of speech in two ways - directly, since being dead or incommunicado is an insurmountable barrier to expression, and indirectly, since members of the group in question are intimidated from speaking up - but since the deleterious effects on free speech are incidental to the proposed harm, constitutional modesty is preserved.