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Re:EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow by consumer451 on Monday June 17, 2024 @07:06PM (#40712214)
I don't believe that anyone is truly for absolute free speech, it's just some theoretical utopia which sounds great, until you actually dive into details. Would you defend my right to call your little brother or sister terrible disgusting names? Threaten you or your family's lives? Say that your entire ethnicity doesn't deserve to exist? Because that would be absolute free speech. I don't think anybody should have the right to do that. I mean they can try, but if it happened in real life, they'd find out real quick that it wasn't a good idea.

If you disagree with me on major issues, I will defend your right to state that. But if I find myself in a place full of hate, be they nazis, or tankies, or whatever, I leave and don't come back.

Re:EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow by umanwizard on Monday June 17, 2024 @07:26PM (#40712394)
The U.S. might not be a free speech utopia but it’s pretty close.

> Would you defend my right to call your little brother or sister terrible disgusting names? Threaten you or your family's lives? Say that your entire ethnicity doesn't deserve to exist?

Out of these three examples, the first and third are totally legal in the U.S.

Re:EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow by consumer451 on Monday June 17, 2024 @07:31PM (#40712434)
Legal yes, IRL not very good for one's health though.
Re:EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow by Dig1t on Monday June 17, 2024 @08:42PM (#40712881)
I know I sound like a horrible evil person, but yes I truly would like to live in a world where you can say any of those examples. As another commenter said, 2/3 of those are already legal to say anyway, and I am so glad that I live in a place that has that freedom.

I don’t agree with or like any of the things you say but I would rather live in a world where you can say them instead of being arrested.