Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns
by dragonwriter on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @06:22PM
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> But my freedom of speech should trump your freedom to spin up angry Internet mobs that proceed to turn my words into lies that they use to rip my life apart.
Your freedom of speech doesn't trump anyone else's freedom of speech. If someone is knowingly or recklessly spreading harmful lies, you have recourse for that, but freedom of speech includes freedom of angry speech, and outside of harmful knowing and reckless lies, it included the freedom to be wrong in your speech.
Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns
by shadowgovt on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @12:08AM
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Maybe you read different words from the rest of us, but RMS pretty much dug his own grave on this one.
Time will come there will be regulations aiming to fix that, because slander laws apparently aren't enough. And then people will come out and talk about freedom of speech, but the only answer will be, "you had it, and you misused it, and almost ripped the society apart".