45% of young americans say they don't believe hate speech is free speech.
Freedom of speech will die unless there is a radical shift.
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Burnley123 · 41-45, M
Meanwhile Colombia university students are locked up and suspended from university for peaceful protest. A move supported by most of the self-styled free speech absolutists.
I really don't get the cognitive dissonance that ignores (or supports) actual political censorship but then reacts to racist trolls being banned from social media as though it is the fall of civilisation.
I really don't get the cognitive dissonance that ignores (or supports) actual political censorship but then reacts to racist trolls being banned from social media as though it is the fall of civilisation.
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@Burnley123 If students who protested peacefully were forcefully locked up, then that's not good. I'm not talking about social media banning people who are racist tho... i'm talking about nearly half of youngsters literally saying that the state should ban speech.
@Burnley123 No one told them to stop protesting, they just couldn't keep protesting there.
They have rights, as long as it doesn't interfere with others right, and they're effecting others. They could peacefully protest in an area that doesn't effect innocent people.
They have rights, as long as it doesn't interfere with others right, and they're effecting others. They could peacefully protest in an area that doesn't effect innocent people.
PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M
@sstronaut That is a weird argument. Explain exactly how peaceful protest is negatively effecting innocent people?
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Getting in the darn way of others.
They have had lots of "peaceful" protest in the middle of streets, stopping traffic... does that not effect the innocent drivers whom want to drive down that street but can't?
Lots of peaceful protest effect people just trying to do their job or just trying to live their own life.
They have had lots of "peaceful" protest in the middle of streets, stopping traffic... does that not effect the innocent drivers whom want to drive down that street but can't?
Lots of peaceful protest effect people just trying to do their job or just trying to live their own life.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@sstronaut
You have the right to free speech as long as it has a thousand caveats.
No one told them to stop protesting, they just couldn't keep protesting there.
You have the right to free speech as long as it has a thousand caveats.
Bumbles · 51-55, M
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Blocking the Golden Gate Bridge, for example.
@Burnley123 Sorry if you don't like the law, but ones rights end when it interferes with someone else rights
Sorry you don't like this common sense
Sorry you don't like this common sense
PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M
@sstronaut Find me the part of the US constitution that specifically states you have a right to not be inconvenienced. I will wait.
Bumbles · 51-55, M
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow. The goal is to make people who work for a living and have places to go angry, so I guess there’s that.
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