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Will the hypocrisy ever stop?
Seriously, no matter what your political views there are so many people who say they advocate free speech but then turn around and pull stunts to censor someone because they find what they say "offensive"
That's the whole point of free speech. To say what you want to say. I hate plenty of what people are saying in this day and age but you don't see me running around demanding that everyone shut up because I don't like their opinion.
EVERYONE is entitled to their own opinion and they have the right to voice them. If you don't like it then instead of saying "stfu" you should have a discussion on why they believe what they do and have a freaking conversation instead of metaphorically slapping your hands over you ears and going "lalalal I can't hear you"
You can't say you're for free speech if you're constantly trying to shut everyone who has a differing opinion up! My god, why is that so hard to understand? It's not rocket science it's common sense!
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- SlickterpLv 73 years ago
The whole point of free speech is actually so the government cannot prosecute you for what you say. It is not so you can say whatever you want wherever and whenever you want with no consequences.
- Jas BLv 73 years ago
That is fine until that free speech actively damages the lives of others. Alex Jones for example has spent years claiming the Sandy Hook massacre never happened, that the parents were actors, that these children never existed, he even told his listeners where these parents lived..
This has resulted in the bereaved parents of the 20 children who died being the victims of multiple abuse and death threats by Jones's crazy followers, some have had to move multiple times in an attempt to get away from this.
Are you saying that someone should be able to destroy the lives of other law abiding citizens, people who are suffering from what is already what most of us would consider the worst that could happen, the death of our children, with no consequences?
You really think that the parents of these dead children, little more than babies should have no rights to stop the likes of Jones further destroying their lives?
