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[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (11 children)

This is the way. But things ARE different, in the way that the US is on the verge of totalitarianism and the sheeple are ready for it.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

I have been in several disagreements lately online with people adamantly against free speech, and that is troubling me because I'm the unpopular opinion in a lot of those arguments.

[–]Node 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

When we ceded 'free speech' to the jews after they fomented the free speech riots in the 60s, their purpose was to corrupt and destroy our society by spewing porn and filth in public. (which they have done)

Free speech is generally fine among your own people. You don't want to hand that weapon to your enemies.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

I feel like we owe a lot of our right to free speech to Larry Flynt and pornography in general.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (7 children)

Why you gotta troll.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Larry Flynt fought several high-profile first amendment legal battles. What some want today, censorship to ban "hate," isn't much different than the old obscenity laws.

There was a movie, The People vs. Larry Flynt about it.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

The right to publish smut. Yeah, way to go pushing "free speech" to an extreme nobody needs.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

It's the extremes that need protecting. Nobody cares if you say inoffensive things. And this in turn protects us, theoretically anyways, from being silenced if suddenly what we say is also deemed offensive.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

How's that working out.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It could be better.