Ah! Perhaps this is it.Sometimes people think of freedom of speech as the law of their particular country but this is different to the principle,Laws around this only apply to government. I am speaking of individual commitments to advocating & promoting the free exchange of ideashttps://twitter.com/notCursedE/status/971307025773793280 …
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But that's not the case for many people who are majority laymen and which goes back to my original point. Human interaction is not logical robots and never has been in the history of society. Ideas, historically, are bad, implemented, then modified.
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I guess maybe I'll just have to rethink the position. In my mind, when a prevalent idea is established across many actors and platforms, I see no reason why interrupting an event constitutes infringement of free speech. Especially considering the history of effective protests.
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Using ones freedom of speech via protest to deny another’s is the epitome of hypocrisy. Express dissent, hold events that voice opposing opinions, attend and ask challenging questions. The heckler’s veto was the bane of the civil rights movement, we don’t want to go there.
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I'm not defending rioting, but riots and the like have directly led to intervention in a positive manner throughout the history of the US. Haymaker riots was a huge turning point. I don't ever want it to get to that point but i'm not doing to deny effectiveness.
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My point would still stand because the effectiveness is predicated on the situation. A violent protest might have less rate of success but be more successful in certain situations.https://twitter.com/yarrowdunham/status/971024859483525122 …
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Of course. I wonder if there have been more of them from good actors than bad tho? We've seen quite a few here, mostly from Islamists in the last few years. I really hope they are not effective.
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Well if you look at government spending or disruption of our daily lives, thoughts, I would say it has some non zero effectiveness. I'm thankful you've entertained my terrible rambling thoughts on this. I hear "free speech" so much it feels like a disservice to our past. 1/
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) to delineate what is a violation of free speech.