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I'm always a little worried about people who put free speech in quotation marks or say something like 'abusing free speech.' Free speech exists to protect controversial speech.

Free speech exists to protect you from the government except under exceptional circumstances.

It is not free speech for me to call a group of people, say you are a kiddy didler and "we have to do something" - that's called incitement to riot and possibly murder.

Free speech is a limited concept - you stray outside of a few well established boundaries and you will be held legally responsible.

With respect to "responsibility", it has always been others free speech rights to socially hold you responsible for what you say - such would manifest in refusing to do business with, boycotting, etc,.

Whether their reaction is justified or sensible has only been restricted again in circumstances of overt harm. A social campaign to deny service to you on grounds of your race would be considered an abuse of free speech and grants you relief or compensation in some degree.

So yes, free speech is limited. Absolute free speech is a dangerous concept considering we had negro boys dangling from trees based on unproven allegations of sexual relations with a white woman or some other "offense".

What do you think are the boundaries of free speech exactly. It seems to me most people who talk about it being 'limited' have no clue what the actual legal limits are. Also free speech is waaaay more then just a law. It's also a concept. A concept that our whole society has been built on.

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Although actually there have been riots and violent attempts to literally shut down his ability to speak. So even what you said is not really accurate to the situation.

There will always be riots over something. Have they infringed on his right to spew his bullshit? Did the university revoke their invitation? Or did he just cut tail and run? Which is his prerogative, but it's not infringing on his rights.

I don't know. I don't pay super close attention. I'd assume a violent riot does limit your ability to speak. In fact that is the intent of it. I never thought that I'd see anti-free speech riots from the left though. Especially over a troll like Milo. The right wing has always had an authoritarian anti-free speech element. It frightens me to see it become so prominent in the left wing too.