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Posted - 2013.07.31 12:04:00 -
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Lee Hekard wrote:The Right of Free Speech also, by definition, applies to those who are considered 'racists', 'N@zis', 'bigots', or anyone else you or society do not agree with. Simply applying the Right of Free Speech to defend those of us who hold 'normal' or 'the civilized' views, and quashing those who go against the norm, by definition, does not qualify as 'free' speech - it simply comes under the definition of censorship. So not only are you ignorant, misguided, stupid, and a sheep, but you also have every right to say / type-on-a-forum your ignorant, misguided, stupid, and sheep-like comments without fear of censorship because we (supposedly) live in a society of Free Speech. cool huh? I have this wonderful quote from a woman called:
Rosa Luxemburg wrote:Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg
Luxemburgs ideal freedom of speech was, as all other things in socialism, independent of the notion "private property", but in socialliberal or capitalistic countries private property by default allows you to curtail others rights on your property.
The extend can vary a lot, but generally freedom of speech is not a thing on private property.
At the same time, the list of societies that does not limit some speech in public - death threats, releasing classified/personal information, hate speech and often much more - is very short. The "freedom of speech" in most countries is exactly the freedom to say stuff that is already agreed on.
Agreeing with a statement, and acknowledging the right to utter a statement, by the way, are two very different things. In Europes left wing parties there have been and are still continued debates whether right wing parties should be confronted with debate and discussion, in essence acknowledging their opinions by opposing them in public discourse, or whether they should be attempted silenced, mostly by ignoring their statements and the general "political correctness" policy. |