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Originally Posted by DMN
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Not a terribly good example. Fundamentally little different from the coordinated attacks on Parlor by the usual suspects.
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.
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Freedom of speech is not (and has never been) freedom from consequences of that speech. The only consequences our constitution prohibits are the
government retribution kind, but what private citizens do to you as a result of your speech is, and has always been,
their freedom to choose.