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"If Eich no longer believes what he believed," So the issue is not speech but rather thought. George Orwell had a term for punishing people for their thoughts

"If Eich no longer believes what he believed," So the issue is not speech but rather thought. George Orwell had a term for punishing people for their thoughts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime

rdc12 13y ago
And he acted on his thought about marriage equality, so it was not a piece of thoughtcrime
skj 13y ago
No, the action of donating money to helping the suppression.