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[–]Canbot 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

The US is the last oasis because of the first ammendment, but that is being circumvented by using corporations to implement the censorship instead of government.

[–]Alienhunter 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Legally yes functionally no. If you doubt me start expressing your political opinions publicly and see how long you keep your job. You have freedom of speech, you don't have a right to employment. Unless you are too rich to care you don't have free speech.

It's perfectly legal for me to fire you for your political opinions in most states. I can't fire you for being gay, I can't fire you for being a member of a church. But if you say I'm voting red or blue, I can fire you.

Political identity is not a protected class in the US, I can just as soon fire you for being a Nazi as I can for you voting for Biden. I can go into the parking lot and use the bumper stickers on the employees cars as a basis for layoffs if I want.

Freedom of speech? Freedom after speech? It's all a kind of public religious creed. A high political ideal that like most things is far abstracted beyond it's functional being. Americans get teary eyed and their voices quake when partaking in the public liturgy of our founding fathers freeeeedom and the like, they get angry and yell during the two minutes hate. What does it all mean in the end? What freedoms do you enjoy? Does the freedom to own a gun mean anything when the government can simply remove that freedom for any number of reasons, like saying you want to use it? Does it mean anything if someone else can simply shoot you to take it.

Perhaps so, as the only true freedom is death.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I think you are repeating what he said.

Corporations are circumventing free speech. Aka, you could get fired.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

An oasis is not a rainforest, it is the last tiny bit of life in a desert.

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

One often beset by bandits looking to waylay thirsty travelers.

[–]Insider 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

US have been murdering and jailing ppl for free speech and free thought for decades

Thomas Philpott, Gary Webb, Michael Hastings, Jeffrey Epstein, JFK, Robert Kennedy, Fred Hampton, MLK, Malcolm-X, Gary Caradori, Deborah Palfrey, John McAfee, Max Spiers, Aaron Swartz, James Dolan, Udo Ulfkotte, Jenny Moore, Nancy Schaefer, Chester Bennington, Andrew Breitbart, Michael Ruppert, etc.

You think they all just enjoy some suicide?

Not to mention the legally silenced or imprisoned ppl for free speech violations like Manning, Snowden, Kiriakou, Assange, Sibel Edmonds, Daniel Hale, Terry Albury, etc.