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by Jsebast24 743 days ago
An EU politician wants to regulate freedom of speech, so you are free to say whatever you want as long as she is cool with it. Think about it - "regulated freedom of speech." That's an oxymoron. You either have freedom of speech or you don't.
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There are some rules against extreme profanity, death threats and bullying of minors anywhere. So true freedom of speech does not exist anyway.
Freedom of speech has never meant that you are not responsible for what you say. Bullying, death threats, slandering, etc. are not the same as expressing an opinion, an observation, or an idea. What these EU politicians want is to control the opinions an ideas that they don't approve; anything they see as a danger to their political agendas.