Can "free speech" be limited by ideology?

Should communists, jihadists, and white supremacists have free speech? To what extent?

If they're not threatening people or advocating for violence, is their speech protected?

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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

Freedom of speech is always a line quoted by others who see other countries in the world crackdown, imprison, torture or kill those who say dissent against the ruling regime.

Within the defined points of this question and the framing from it's author, you can see how the term is limited by what the author deems 'acceptable'.
And THAT'S the problem !

Communists; Jihadists and White supremacists are the examples given here, but even these would be considered questionable since Communism only exists in patches throughout the world, Jihadists and white supremacists are essentially the same.
Yet there's no recognition of that.

And we ALL have our limits.
Subjects and positions for which NO amount of explanation will EVER make them considered acceptable.
So where does that leave us ?
Free speech but only if.....?
Free speech provided that....?

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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@SW-User But even in those places China is starting to use it's industrial capacity to make money for it's people. So Communism may be slowly evolving there.
And Putin is President of a country 1/4 the size that the former USSR was. So can you legitimately call it any kind of 'threat' ?

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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@SW-User Ah ! Be careful with what you think you know !
As we've seen from foreign policy in the United States over the last thirty years, a lot of what we 'know' we're being TOLD.
As to whether there's any ACTUAL truth in what's being SAID and ultimately ACTED on....That's a question !

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@Picklebobble2 Just because something is unacceptable to us doesn’t mean we want them to be silenced.

I chose those examples because they’re unacceptable to a lot of people. But I want people to confront the limits of free speech.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@SW-User Doesn't mean [b]YOU[/b] want them to be silenced.
Doesn't apply to everyone does it.

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@Picklebobble2 well that’s why I asked the question. I want to know if other people think they should be silenced. Some people do because they consider it “hate speech” or “treason” or a threat against national security.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@SW-User Hate speech/treason/national security threat.....ALL terms used when folk in certain positions DON'T want something spoken of.
Thus a restriction on free speech