Re:Can free speech survive the internet?
by jsf666 on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @06:10AM
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It is really amusing to see the amount of downvoting in the comment section when the article is about free speech and censorship
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Re:Can free speech survive the internet?
by evgen on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @06:31AM
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ObXKCD: https://xkcd.com/1357/
Re:Can free speech survive the internet?
by acheron on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @08:42AM
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That is such a terrible comic. "Free speech" is a broader cultural concept than "legal first amendment rights", and conflating them like that is at best ignorant but more likely a deliberate tactic for those in favor of censorship.
Re:Can free speech survive the internet?
by norea-armozel on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @10:05AM
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So does the freedom of speech include you being able to invade my home to scream at me? Or force me to go to a church? Or listen to you while I'm walking by? Seriously, I'd love to see this form of extreme speech survive a day in any big metropolitan area. It's likely its adherents would wind up with broken jaws in less time than that.
Re:Can free speech survive the internet?
by jsf666 on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @01:22PM
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Are you seriously comparing expressing ones opinions in a more or less PUBLIC space to assaulting someone on his private property? Or enslaving you so you got to church? Are these the mighty arguments madmen such as I need to refute?
Re:Can free speech survive the internet?
by norea-armozel on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @10:17AM
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No one is preventing anyone from expressing their opinion. Just expect people to call you an ahole for expressing it. Or in other words: deal with reality and stop pretending you're exempt from criticism (noticed that I was free to post my opinion on here and you were free to criticize it without getting hurt, right? My feelings and body are intact and I hope yours are too.).