Maybe we shld rename free speech 'free expression of opinions' so ppl can't point out that some things done verbally are rightly illegal.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Plotting a terrorist attack, ordering a murder, conning someone out of money, making a false accusation of a crime, perjury etc.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Wastes endless time explaining to ppl determined not to understand that free speech is a specific concept tied to ideas, not speech itself.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
There's a lot of qualifications to your examples (especially the ones about lying and fraud). To be fair 140 character limit.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
it also depends on if it had a materially negative impact on the person. Even then, it depends if your intent was to cause harm.
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Replying to @livebeef
I'm not talking abt what laws are but an important conceptual difference between expressing ideas & harmful actions in words.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
So if I heard a slanderous rumor and started repeating it without me knowing it was false, is that free speech to you?
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Replying to @livebeef
Its not related to the concept of free expression of opinions & ideas that I am defending, no.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
So should it only be considered free speech if it has been fact checked or phrased as an opinion?
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Discussion of ideas - God exists. Gender is binary. Holocaust didn't happen. No need for fact checking. Ppl allowed to be wrong.
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