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by tzs 4993 days ago
> If you stand for free speech, you are going to be defending assholes and thugs and people who say disgusting things.

Violentacrez's speech rights do not automatically trump the privacy rights of his victims. His ideas and opinions can be communicated via speech that does not violate the rights of others, and so when balancing his speech rights against their privacy rights I'd favor the privacy rights.

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This is true. I was mostly offended by the "he's a bad person so who cares about his rights" argument.