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Re:Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing by WhompingWindows on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @11:26AM (#23628975)
American free speech is a legal concept from the late 1700s, before germ theory, trains, antibiotics, flight, or even the Civil War to end slavery. Free speech is a concept from the time where a majority of US power was in the hands of slaveholders...when "speech" meant what your mouth or printing press could produce.

Can we really expect this antiquated legal concept to neatly interact with technology from 2020? Did the founders think it a good idea to allow incendiary and dangerous communication to millions instantaneously? We can't know, they didn't have that debate.

Edit: Someone want to comment and explain why this is downvoted to -2?

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Re:Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing by solarwind on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @11:55AM (#23629452)
Your argument is ad hominem, a logical fallacy where one attacks the character or motive of the person making an argument rather than the substance of the argument itself.

Furthermore, free speech is a natural human right, to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being, not an Americentrist historical accident.

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