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Re:Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resista... by h_anna_h on Monday September 20, 2021 @12:40PM (#28595715)
> If you voluntarily agree to not leak secrets and do so anyway its not protected under free speech

Of course it is. Anyway, I mentioned more cases where there is no voluntarily agreement.

> You also dont get jailed for speech but for the act of breaching some agreement or other law.

You can claim that for everyone who got jailed for speech.

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Re:Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resista... by noxer on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @08:18AM (#28615466)
>You can claim that for everyone who got jailed for speech.

Name the case. The burden of proof lies with you if you clame people get jailed for speech.

I posted a case from Germany. So if you have one from the US post it. No one in the thread could post one so far.

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Re:Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resista... by h_anna_h on Friday September 24, 2021 @11:12AM (#28643527)
> No one in the thread could post one so far.

This is false, I posted this before:

> Just look at all these people who went to jail for crimes related to illegal numbers (eg. piracy). Or people like Mildred Gillars. Or the various whistleblowers.

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