• Imotali@lemmy.worldM
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    They can say what they want without restraint or restriction. They are not free from the consequences of their words.

    They can say what they like. We can ban them if we don’t like it. That’s how free speech works in a consequentialist society (modern Western society is a synthesis of consequentialism and contractualism).

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      2 years ago

      Censor and banning opinions and ideas you don’t like is anti free speech.

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        2 years ago

        You were allowed to say it. I’m allowed to remove it. Welcome to the world. Don’t like it? Leave.

        But also: nobody in the world actually likes the idea of absolutist free speech. The founding fathers certainly didn’t believe in such an idea.