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Originally Posted by mcmc
How is that acceptable for a country like the US? I mean, i read so many posts here about free speech and stuff regarding the US. Just lies?
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There's a few hundred years worth of history on the subject of constitutional "free speech". Needless to say, the original context in the constitution has to do with the right to assemble and so forth and nothing to do with dirty words. Basically, you should have the right to complain about your government or political opponents. Many nations of the world have co-opted this following the example of the US constitution.
In time, perverts like you and I have attempted to expand the definition of free speech. It's quite clearly working as words that could not be aired on television 30 years ago can today (with South Park as my leading example).
Now, there are varying degrees of free speech in many different countries and different nations are more or less open to different kinds of free speech. Maybe you can say "c u n t" on the radio in Switzerland but it's illegal there to deny the holocaust and as you probably know people have been arrested there because of it. Hope that example is illustrative enough.