(April 4, 2009 at 1:31 pm)Kyuuketsuki Wrote:What other limitations would you put on it?(April 4, 2009 at 10:11 am)Tiberius Wrote: Freedom of speech has one limitation, and that is hate speech, which is a speech that acts to threaten a specific group of people in such a way that could incite violence towards them. What the professor did here was not hate speech, he simply expressed his ideas, even if they were crazy.
I'd say freedom of speech is an ideal that cannot be achieved and that there is a lot more than just one limitation.
Kyu
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