Re:Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
by jessriedel on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @08:55PM
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No. The 1st amendment is specific to the government, but free speech is a much broader normative concept. It is about cordoning off the market place of ideas from reprisals in meatspace. A canonical defense is John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" (available free online).
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Re:Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
by dguaraglia on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @09:41PM
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It might be a canonical concept, but it's not encoded in law.
Indeed. The law does not completely protect free speech; the first amendment prevents the federal government from infringing it, but it's up to us to defend it when it's threatened by other private citizens or organizations.