• @pearsaltchocolatebar
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    41 month ago

    Free speech means that the government can’t punish you for saying things. That’s it.

    • @S_204@lemm.ee
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      -41 month ago

      That’s the legal definition. It’s insane that you’re trying to argue that THAT is what’s needed to consider the limiting of speech to be unacceptable. Your bias has clouded your ability to reason. I’m quite sure you’re not making those claims about the campus protests being shut down by the schools.

      • @pearsaltchocolatebar
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        41 month ago

        Campus protests being shut down by schools is absolutely a completely different situation than someone being invited to give a speech. Saying no to someone giving a speech isn’t punishing them.

        As you’ve been told multiple times, free speech doesn’t guarantee you a platform wherever or whenever you want. In fact, by your definition of free speech, the entire parliamentary procedure is a violation of free speech. Which is a ridiculous take.

        • @S_204@lemm.ee
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          130 days ago

          You’re right, it is very different. The campus encampments are calling for intifada. Calling for violence should not be accepted. That is starkly different from an invitation to a foreign Ally being scuttled by people too afraid to hear what someone has to say.

          • @pearsaltchocolatebar
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            130 days ago

            Yes, calling for the Palestinian people to rise up against the invading country that is actively genociding them is definitely a bad thing.

            I’m being sarcastic, so hopefully that was obvious.