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Re:Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citi... by hopler on Saturday December 22, 2018 @11:22AM (#18741160)
Free speech (expression is not in the Constitution) is not predicated on consent. If sex is a protected act of expression, than so is any kind of physical assault.
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Re:Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citi... by bdhess on Saturday December 22, 2018 @03:08PM (#18742206)
There’s definitely a consent factor to exercising your free speech rights. For example, you cannot loiter on my sidewalk at 2 AM expressing your free speech rights with a megaphone, since that would constitute harassment or breach of the peace, unless the neighborhood consented to hearing it.

Assault is a crime of violence; I think you’re looking for Battery as the comparison. Lack of consent is indeed one of the elements of Battery.

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