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marble falls

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4. Do you want your own free speech metered ...

Reply to diva77 (Original post)

Tue Jun 13, 2023, 08:06 AM

Jun 2023

... some people don't understand what free speech is. Free speech is speech made without prior restraint, you can't be be sanctioned for what you might say, only for what you do say.

We have to keep our emotional reactions out of the equation because if we don't we become like them, armed balls of emotional outburst.

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Why is it called "free speech" if it costs $$$millions in beefed up security as a result ?? [View all] diva77 Jun 2023 OP

So ditch the 1st amendment because we have the Internet? Blues Heron Jun 2023 #1

Yeah. Me neither. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 #3

Me neither. marble falls Jun 2023 #5

Nor I as well. GreenWave Jun 2023 #7

Recent statements made by Trump and Kari Lake, for example, have endangered government officials diva77 Jun 2023 #9

I am not a lawyer, but that never stopped anyone else at DU. mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 #16

Thanks for this diva77 Jun 2023 #17

Wonder how much J6 has to do with it? Like now Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2023 #2

This is what I was thinking -- we've had previous experience with the consequences of Trump's diva77 Jun 2023 #14

Do you want your own free speech metered ... marble falls Jun 2023 #4

More on prior restaint TheProle Jun 2023 #10

We've already witnessed what Trump's speech can do and our tax dollars being allocated to beefed up diva77 Jun 2023 #11

Free Speech tends to cut both ways TheProle Jun 2023 #12

At a certain point, when it repeatedly stokes terrorism, I would hope for safety to become a diva77 Jun 2023 #13

This is usually covered in high school civics classes, but... Dr. Strange Jun 2023 #6

I explained myself with an editional edit to the OP -- hope you have a chance to see that. Thanks diva77 Jun 2023 #21

The internet isn't as much a problem Bettie Jun 2023 #8

Money speech is definitely a problem too; agreed. diva77 Jun 2023 #18

Who defines incendiary? WarGamer Jun 2023 #15

All good points. I'm just mad that we seem to live in a "threatocracy" now and anyone who diva77 Jun 2023 #19

I hear ya... WarGamer Jun 2023 #22

There is more to Right to Free Speech under the 1st amendment.. Lady Freedom Returns Jun 2023 #20