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by burgerbrain 5245 days ago
Most people use freedom of speech to talk about trivial, illegal, or irrelevant things. But so what? That is their right.

"We aren't talking about leaked government documents here"

In numerous cases, we are actually...

Listen. If information freedom isn't a particularly important issue to you, then so be it. For many people it is however, no matter how 'trivial' the bulk of the information may be. It is apparent that the Pirate Bay operators are among the group of people who think this way.