It is, actually. Once you restrict what others can say there's no freedom of speech anymore. It's like China saying you can't talk about the regime - I'm sure they consider that "basic human decency" as well.
> Freedom of speech isn't freedom to be a bigot. You can say whatever you want, but that doesn't mean the rest of the world has to listen.
To be clear, it is freedom to be a bigot, or at least to say bigoted things, just not freedom to have anyone else listen to those things (or, as hopefully goes without saying, for any action based on those bigoted things that goes beyond words).
Exactly it's why I send money to ACLU and EFF. I'll spend money to help defend your right to say what you want, but I'll be damned if I have to listen to your BS on my own time. I'm just there to stop the government from outlawing freedom of speech.
dgb23|4 years ago
"If you're an asshole, I won't broadcast your stuff."
People are still free to be assholes, but the platform is free to not associate themselves with the assholes.
Very simple.
Kye|4 years ago
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M2Ys4U|4 years ago
If you go by that definition then there is no country on Earth that has freedom of speech.
And that's a good thing because that definition is completely and utterly insane; Absolute freedom of speech would be a catastrophe.
Kaze404|4 years ago
JadeNB|4 years ago
To be clear, it is freedom to be a bigot, or at least to say bigoted things, just not freedom to have anyone else listen to those things (or, as hopefully goes without saying, for any action based on those bigoted things that goes beyond words).
stjohnswarts|4 years ago