Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar...
by Rapzid on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:30PM
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Isegoria, the right for every adult male to free political speech(to address the assembly)?
Parrhesia, freedom of speech in the courts and assemblies(and outside public assemblies)?
No, I'm pretty sure it has always had to do with the governments and the governed. It seems popular these days to conflate the general concept tolerance with freedom of speech.
Tolerance has it's limits though as per the tolerance paradox. Freedom of speech says the government shouldn't draw the line, but society at large absolutely should be allowed to.
EDIT: Outside of specific venues and contexts what you could say in Ancient Athens society was much more rigidly defined and there was much less tolerance for breaking those norms than in the USA today.
Parrhesia, freedom of speech in the courts and assemblies(and outside public assemblies)?
No, I'm pretty sure it has always had to do with the governments and the governed. It seems popular these days to conflate the general concept tolerance with freedom of speech.
Tolerance has it's limits though as per the tolerance paradox. Freedom of speech says the government shouldn't draw the line, but society at large absolutely should be allowed to.
EDIT: Outside of specific venues and contexts what you could say in Ancient Athens society was much more rigidly defined and there was much less tolerance for breaking those norms than in the USA today.