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by nemo44x
840 days ago
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Which laws were broke? A political group had a conversation regarding policy and most attendees agreed it wouldn’t be possible with acquiring more democratically elected power. And even then it may not be viable. There’s nothing wrong with that. The other link is a guy doing Nazi things which is fine in most places although Germany has state controlled speech so it was problematic. But it’s just speech. |
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https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/rechtes-treffen-in-pots...
> But it’s just speech.
The reason I value freedom of speech, the reason it's even important to protect it, is that there's no "just" about it. All we are as a milieu, personally and globally, is from communication, from sharing ideas rather than reinventing things from scratch ourselves.
Martin Luther and Martin Luther King changed the world for the better with "'just' speech" — but it was also "'just' speech" that convinced people to give actual literal Hitler and Pol Pot any power, or even the means to spread their merely human voices more widely and control an entire nation.
There's no "just" when it comes to speech. It's what sets us apart from most other animals. It's our superpower… well, that and being able to throw things both hard and accurately. Our two main superpowers…