> lies are toxic to free speech
IMHO you're not interested in free speech unless you're willing to defend speech you find repugnant.
You don't need to protect speech everyone finds unobjectionable.
You need to protect speech that is almost universally opposed.
Minorities need protection, majorities don't, and this the basis of the American notion of freedom - insofar as the individual is the smallest minority.
> Do you think it's in the Constitution that you have the unalienable right post any lie you want to YouTube? I don't remember that being in there.
Clearly it isn't and I believe in freedom of association completely too. If a business wants to not serve anyone for any reason, I recognize that - clearly law has developed to qualify this.
This notion of freedom of association has no bearing on my ability to criticize Youtube for doing something I find wrong.
I can simultaneously believe that what Youtube is doing is wrong and they're completely allowed to do it.
IMHO you're not interested in free speech unless you're willing to defend speech you find repugnant.
You don't need to protect speech everyone finds unobjectionable.
You need to protect speech that is almost universally opposed.
Minorities need protection, majorities don't, and this the basis of the American notion of freedom - insofar as the individual is the smallest minority.
> Do you think it's in the Constitution that you have the unalienable right post any lie you want to YouTube? I don't remember that being in there.
Clearly it isn't and I believe in freedom of association completely too. If a business wants to not serve anyone for any reason, I recognize that - clearly law has developed to qualify this.
This notion of freedom of association has no bearing on my ability to criticize Youtube for doing something I find wrong.
I can simultaneously believe that what Youtube is doing is wrong and they're completely allowed to do it.