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by zajio1am 1180 days ago
> This "freedom of speech isn't freedom of consequences" line is exactly the sort of attitude people take in the countries in which the government does suppress free speech, and they think it's just perfectly fine. You have freedom of speech and every country then, the consequences just going to jail.

There is even old communist-era joke about that:

Is here in USSR the same freedom of speech like in western countries?

Yes, there is freedom of speech, but in western countries there is also freedom after speech.