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by bongodongobob
603 days ago
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Not really. You don't have a right to post things on Twitter or shout at people in Wendy's. A twitter moderator or a Wendy's manager isn't the government and you have no expectation of freedom of speech or expression in either of those scenarios. I get what you're saying, but it's not technically correct. |
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One, this is obviously debated.
Two, expectations don’t define rights. I have no expectation of freedom of political expression in North Korea.
> it's not technically correct
It absolutely is. If you’re over at my house and I tell you to stop talking about something, that’s curtailing your free speech. Freedom of speech is a millennias-old concept. So is freedom of assembly. The latter restricts the former, fundamentally, as it implies a right not to listen.
What constitutes a freedom per se is separate from the “inalienable” right. That “natural” right, in turn, is different from the legal right.