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Comment by knorker

Preventing speech is free speech? How orwellean. What if the government shouts down unfavourable speech, like with water cannons? Is water cannons and teargas speech?

How about industrial megaphones?

Your free speech only extends so far as it doesn't prevent, prior restraint, someone else's free speech.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

What you just said is the antithesis to free speech.

No. If the goal of your so called speech is to physically stop someone else's right to free speech, then you are just a thug and don't actually hold this value.

And like I said, many people who do this prevention of free speech admin it explicitly in so many words. They do not care about free speech.

parent knorker 1 month ago

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