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Originally Posted by loramin
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If you crack open A People's History of the United States, you'll see that free speech has been under assault in far, far worse ways throughout American history. We're talking about powerful rich men buying every newspaper in town and silencing all dissent against them. NOTHING at all like one "newspaper" deciding not to print Trump's opinion.
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Not a terribly good example. Fundamentally little different from the coordinated attacks on Parlor by the usual suspects.
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Originally Posted by loramin
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Once you understand where we came from, you'll understand that (as Gustoo said), we truly have more free speech now than ever.
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Could you list all the notable people in history who were forever unemployable simply for having the "wrong" opinion on a subject? All the people booted out of school/profession/job due to some joke they made when they were kid? Where fully westernized democratic countries seek to jail/fine people for using the wrong words or simply telling the wrong jokes? Where those same governments compel speech? Where many of the universities in those countries had speech codes?
More idiots on the internet is no metric of free speech.