Comment by thrance
4 months ago
Yes, death threats are not protected by your free speech, that was my entire point that you completely missed.
Why then not allow them but allow flurries of racial slurs? Or harassment? Or foreign propaganda? The line is never "anything goes", we have to draw it somewhere. So, why act like anything other than "anything goes" is "literally 1984".
In Europe, it's "La liberté des uns s'arrête là où commence celle des autres" (Rousseau). Americans should simply stop trying to impose their different conception of freedom that just led them into a violent kleptocracy.
No that’s just nonsense. The line is drawn at actual death threats. Anything else does lead to 1984.
People regularly kill themselves over online harassment, isn't that enough? Would acting on that lead to 1984?