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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
The idea of "free speech" is about speaking out against a government... not about screaming "FIRE!!" in a movie theater. "Free speech" doesn't mean "say anything you want, anywhere you want to anyone you want about anything you want"
Everyone loves to drag the Constitution into the discussion and start talking about "Free Speech" as if there are no laws that define what you can and can't say and under what circumstances and where you can say things.
The argument about protecting the speech you hate is retarded... you wouldn't tolerate people calling you a rapist or pedophile and printing that in a magazine or newspaper... yet all your arguments defend that very thing.
some of you kids really neeed to grow up. life is not about you against authority... its a shame that so many of you live your lives as if it is. what a waste.
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what part of "up until the point that it plainly affects another person's right to life, liberty, or property" did you not understand?
And freedom of speech is just that. While it includes speaking up against the government (and that could, arguably, the the most important protection we're afforded in the constitution in regards to expression rights), it's not limited to that one application.
