Comment by john-h-k
17 hours ago
> To practice free speech requires an intent to express a point of view
Excellent, now we can ban speech we don’t like by just saying it doesn’t actually express a point of view
17 hours ago
> To practice free speech requires an intent to express a point of view
Excellent, now we can ban speech we don’t like by just saying it doesn’t actually express a point of view
You can't yell out in a theatre that there is a fire and cause a stampede.
Just in case you're not citing that old debunked free speech trope ironically, please see: "Don’t Use These Free-Speech Arguments Ever Again" by First Amendment expert Ken White (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/free-speec...).
I have no idea what you are talking about, and I am unable to read the article as it is behind a paywall.
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Absolutely. Point is we have to judge it in context. People saying horrible things for no reason on a message board is fundamentally different to causing a stampede in a cinema.
I agree that we need laws to make "yelling fire and causing stampedes" illegal. I do not agree that "free speech requires an intent to express a point of view" is the correct way of implementing this.