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Re:Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger wo... by belorn on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @07:22AM (#11478570)
Free speech law operates on a complete different level than safe spaces. Law has careful designed constraints, while the definition of safe spaces is what ever anyone feel should be restricted in their social environment.

Commonly, free speech is limited where someone is encouraging violence against a person or group (hate speech), or when there is measurable harm done to a person (defamation). Being triggered because someone voice a different view about a political subject is neither hate speech or defamation, but it is something which "safe spaces" has recently been made to restrict.

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Re:Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger wo... by zimpenfish on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @07:43AM (#11478665)
> Being triggered because someone voice a different view about a political subject is neither hate speech or defamation

I haven't been following this very closely which is possibly why I haven't seen an example of this "political triggering" claim. Do you have some examples?

> Commonly, free speech is limited

I think you're talking about the governmental limits on free speech there - private individuals and institutions have no such constraints and can limit whatever speech they want (within the bounds of legally-mandated discrimination, obviously) because (as I understand it, I'm not a US lawyer) they're not bound by the First Amendment.

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