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by mrguyorama 1044 days ago
ANY "freedom of speech" that curtails the speech of people responding, using their own free speech, to someone saying something, is not freedom of speech, but rather an attempt to silence critics.

If you believe in "Freedom to publish without retribution", you believe in "might makes right".

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> curtails the speech of people responding

What are you on about? Honestly. Violence and violent intimidation are not free speech, if violence against journalists is coming from any party other than the government, how is that not a threat to free speech simply by virtue of it coming from parties other than the government? Can you answer that without going off on wild tangents?

Reminder that I responded to a claim that only governments can threaten the freedom of the press. Do I need to explain to that non-governments are capable of murder, or do you understand at least this much?