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Comment by gzread

3 days ago

> There are no laws preventing you from saying anything in the US, unless...

Sounds like there are some of those laws. You covered them with "unless"

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pc86  3 days ago

This is a common refrain from people in countries without freedom of speech, used to argue that the US doesn't AcKtUalLy have freedom of speech.

The idea that "freedom of speech" in the US is not philosophically and fundamentally different than "freedom of speech" in, for example, the UK or Germany, is not an opinion grounded in reality regardless of what legal minutiae you can point to.

  • gzread  2 days ago

    Well what are the differences then?

    So far all we have is the statement that Germany has some speech laws, but the US has no speech laws except for the speech laws that it has, which is a grammatical trick, not an actual difference, because it's saying both countries have some speech laws.