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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Replying to @livebeef
I started by saying perhaps FoS shld be renamed 'free expression of opinions'. That's what I'm referring to.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I mean, it's the speaker's opinion. It may not have basis in reality, but it's still the speaker's opinion.
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Replying to @livebeef
I'm not interested in defending rights & wrongs of talking about people. Defending the right to express ideas & opinions.
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And seeing this as different to harmful actions. Slander could certainly be a harmful action but not given much thought to cases.
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