No, you're not you dumbfuck. I doubt you'd want people posting your name, address, social security number, photo, medical records, and school transcripts online for everyone to see. Not to sell it, mind you, just posting it because they can. Because that would fall under "absolute free speech," that I can make anyone's personal information public.

Total free speech would also include shit like CSAM, espionage, yelling "Bomb!" on an airplane, playing music at 150 decibels at 3 AM in a residential area, would eliminate all copyright laws (which would be based, actually, but I doubt this crypto fash would agree), and allow for stalking/cyberbullying/phone calls/etc. where the intent is to harass and intimidate someone.

Since we don't do these things, that means we already have limits on free speech. So why not include bigotry? Oh right, so this asshole can whine about Jennifer Lawrence being 34 and not 20.

[–] WorkingClassCorpse@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

His take on this is that 'free speech absolutism' somehow doesn't include harmful speech 'by definition' (he does not bother elaborating on this, it just 'is')

It drives me up a fucking wall when 'centrists' just accept common practice as self-evidently good and literally cannot do the minimum amount of critical thought about why common opinions exist as they do, even if literally fucking dragged to the water's edge and have their head forcibly submerged. The smug debatelord centrist is possibly my least favorite internet personality type - it may even be worse than outright white nationalist groypers.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Malcolm X was complaining about these assholes 61 years ago lmao

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