Re:Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door
by P5fRxh5kUvp2th on Monday October 10, 2022 @01:03PM
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This has nothing to do with free-speech absolutism.
> You could get yourself arrested for shouting "Fire!" in a cinema.
Not only is that not true, the justice that quote is based off of later changed his mind.
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> Visit Auschwitz, then have a think.
The US is not a perfect country by any means, but in this we are superior. Freedom is risky, the question is whether the curtailing of freedom is worth it.
No way in hell is it worth having the police show up at your door because of a meme image you shared on facebook.
Free-speech absolutism is a position you might rethink if you had panzerkampfwagens rolling over your fields in living memory. Visit Auschwitz, then have a think.
And fwiw, there are limits to free speech in the US, too. You could get yourself arrested for shouting "Fire!" in a cinema. Does that bother you? Do you feel your rights are curtailed, if you cannot freely express your opinion that a cinema is on fire?