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Re:Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky by kelnos on Sunday September 01, 2024 @05:22AM (#41415451)
> the US has the First Amendment, which it upholds [...] and while inciting violence is banned

So the US only upholds 1A when it decides it wants to. In other words, no, it doesn't really uphold it.

(And for the record, I'm mostly fine with that! I'm tired of this idea that absolute free speech is a thing, that people actually have it in large numbers, and that if they did, it would actually be a good thing.)

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Re:Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky by bad_user on Sunday September 01, 2024 @08:34AM (#41416475)
If you came up with that conclusion you know nothing about how US's justice system works.

I don't know what "absolute" means for you, but yes, free speech is good, the more free it is, the better. As to your popularity fallacy, consider that for most of our time on earth, constant war and slavery were normal, and our grand-grandparents knew both.

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