The limits of free speech
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Tuesday, September 1, 2026 00:16
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You can say that whites are the superior race.
Or that women are better than men,
You can say that Jews control the world.
Or that you want to see the world genocided "down to the last hundred".
You can claim the earth is flat.
Or that last summer's riots were "mostly peaceful".
You can spin endless conspiracy theories (for example, Russian collusion) or endless conspiracy facts.
You can claim any fool thing .... or wise thing... that you want. It's protected free speech. And the answer to stupid speech is rebuttal, not censorship or defamation.
There are some thing you CAN'T do:
You can't slag someone's reputation by making false claims about them, incite IMMINENT violence, defraud people, distribute child pornography, threaten people, violate copyright laws, or plan illegal behavior. Advertising is also not protected free speech.
I know that free speech disturbs a bunch of libtards here, and that they want to get rid of it right away, but free speech clause protects them, too, when they post hate speech or idiocies.
It doesn't protect defamation, tho. Might want to keep that in mind.
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No, bullshit offends Sig. Your bullshit offends.
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Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) used the words of former President Donald Trump to make the case that Trump broke the duty of his office. Raskin went on to argue why Trump's words and actions leading up to the January 6 insurrection on the US capitol did not enjoy 1st amendment protections.
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So? Who cares, Ted?
For every person you post that argues your side on this issue, I'll find another one who argues against it.
Free speech is free speech. Period.
Sorry not sorry that's an inconvenience to you and your NeoCon buddies.
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Quote:Are you offended by the Constitution? Because, son, I'm just telling you what the Constitution says.
THUGR: No, bullshit offends Sig. Your bullshit offends.
The Constitution protects "offensive" speech - even yours.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.
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Raskin is a deranged nut job and a bold face liar.
Sorry his son died recently, maybe he should have taken some time to grieve. ( I mean, if he really love him, that is. )
It's been categorically proven that CNN and NBC paid a Leftist for the staged insurrection.
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I remember when YEARS ago we had the same 'free speech' discussion here on fff, except there were a lot more participants back then, and it was directed at the right.
Iirc it was a discussion outlining the limits of free speech. The original opening argument was 'you can't yell 'fire!' in a crowded theater', and the conclusion was, indeed, while speech is Constitutionally mostly free, there are in fact some legal limits.
Now it seems the TDSers from the democratic* side need lessons both in 'free speech' limits (like libel) AS WELL AS basic lessons in Constitutionally protected free speech freedoms. Considering all the canned BS they post and support, and all the facts they want to disappear, and all the opinions they want to silence, their motto seems to be "hey! hey! hey! pro-pa-gan-da, all the way!"
So who are the overlord wannabes here?
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I remember when YEARS ago we had the same 'free speech' discussion here on fff, except there were a lot more participants back then, and it was directed at the right.
That's a point I've tried to make many times, but it falls completely on deaf ears here.
If you go back to my GWB period posts, you couldn't be blamed for thinking that I was a Democrat.
I didn't change.
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So, speaking of 'free' speech (free as in freedom, not beer):
Facebook won't let users in Australia share news
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/17/media/facebook-australia-news-ban/i
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That may be a good thing. I hope it weans people off of Facebook and they broaden their 'sources'.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I didn't change.
How many times you gonna post that to try to prove it to yourself??
No one cares what you claim you are or aren't, Narcissus.
We know you are a sick lazy turd in any party, place, or time.
Even Kiki and Sigs knows it, but they just pretend not to.
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