Re:Montana Becomes First State to Enshrine 'Right to Compute...
by immibis on Monday November 10, 2025 @09:30AM
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So you agree that speech which causes deaths should be restricted?
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Re:Montana Becomes First State to Enshrine 'Right to Compute...
by strictnein on Monday November 10, 2025 @02:05PM
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It's not speech. You have a gun that fires when you say a word. You having a setup that fires the gun when you say a word instead of pulling a trigger doesn't mean you are utilizing "speech" in any meaningful sense of the word, other than that the gun responds to a sound.
Re:Montana Becomes First State to Enshrine 'Right to Compute...
by immibis on Monday November 10, 2025 @04:23PM
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There is no gun involved. I say the words, and the person dies. Should the government restrict my speech?
Re:Montana Becomes First State to Enshrine 'Right to Compute...
by strictnein on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @04:23PM
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Again, we don't live in a fairyland, we live in reality. A gun is real, your magic is not. If you had a gun that fired based on a sound, the fact that a sound is used does not matter. It is not "speech". Noise is not protected speech.
Likewise, if you had the magical ability to kill a random person with your magical sounds, you are not practicing "speech", you are using a magical technique in your make believe land to kill random people.
Re:Montana Becomes First State to Enshrine 'Right to Compute...
by dns_snek on Monday November 10, 2025 @02:46PM
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Yes, for some definition of "speech which causes deaths". This definition should include calls to violence but exclude, for example, vaccine skepticism.
Re:Montana Becomes First State to Enshrine 'Right to Compute...
by wredcoll on Monday November 10, 2025 @06:46PM
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There's a big ol' messy line between a powerful entity saying "I would like you not to do that" and "I'm going to stop you from doing that".
We don't want to be in some world where the gov can't ask people to stop being/hosting vaccine deniers.