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by x220 2809 days ago
>"I discovered that in the South, guys don't give any warning before they punch you."

That's not free speech. That's silencing what you don't like with violence.

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Actually, the guy got punched for insulting someone. He went on to talk about how in New York there would have likely been some warning first. So yeah, insults and name-calling comes with immediate consequences in real life. I think that's acceptable.

I'm not advocating public violence to limit speech or "de-platform" people. We have too much of that already. Rather, the point was to contrast the kinds of things people will say online that they would probably not say in person.