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Re: Should The US Make Speech That's Critical or Disparaging of Mohammed a Crime?
Exactly. Freedom of speech is really the closet thing to an "all or nothing" issue that we have. Censorship and the punishment of unpopular ideas is like a slowly rising ooze that needs constant vigilance to keep under control. Thank god for the ACLU, huh??
People in this country do NOT have a right to NOT be offended.
You hit a bullseye here Pinkie. If protected speech which falls under the SLAPS test(Serious Literary Artistic Political Scientific) and has the highest scope of protection can be violated "for safety" it opens the door for further violations. Any speech out of context can potentially offend someone, it isn't even close to worth banning speech because it offends someone.
Exactly. Freedom of speech is really the closet thing to an "all or nothing" issue that we have. Censorship and the punishment of unpopular ideas is like a slowly rising ooze that needs constant vigilance to keep under control. Thank god for the ACLU, huh??
People in this country do NOT have a right to NOT be offended.