RE: Milo Yiannopoulos resigns from Breitbart News
February 26, 2017 at 2:20 pm
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2017 at 2:21 pm by Autumnlicious.)
(February 26, 2017 at 2:09 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: 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".
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