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by drivingmenuts 644 days ago
TLDR: No.

Any time you are on anything other than your own site on your own hosting, you are subject to the rules and whims of someone else, no exception, end of story. Furthermore, you are never free from consequences, regardless, which is what a lot of people, if not most, mean when they demand freedom of speech. No one is required to listen to you, regardless of the truth or falsity of your proposition and they are free to react, short of violence, in a manner that reflects their own values and judgement. This is a condition of being a free, autonomous human. To have it any other way is to remove a portion of that autonomy from someone. Certain speech is curtailed by society when the exercise of that speech would create or exacerbate harm to some protected individuals. You might disagree with some of those limitations, but until a majority of people think the same as you, those limitations will continue to exist.