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@enochkambangukalimbwe8099
October 20, 2025 at 1:01 pm
The 4th truth. It’s not about being sarcastic 🤌 knowledge is the key 🔐
@joeyg283
October 20, 2025 at 1:05 pm
100% correct!
@HarryGuit
October 20, 2025 at 3:30 pm
75% is my guess on that.
@amymattimore4713
October 20, 2025 at 1:41 pm
Larry flynt of hustler magazine did a lot in the courts defending free speech
@LotusPleiades
October 20, 2025 at 1:45 pm
People That Want You “Knowing Less”: Republicans!
@nin-ten-jin
October 20, 2025 at 2:11 pm
Sorry, I agree and disagree. It’s waaaay more complex than this. Study the cynefin framework: when you oversimplify a complex system you risk chaotic collapse of the system.
It’s naive to float free speech as “all speech is permissible.” Psychological warfare is very capable of destroying democracies if you don’t do something to bound the impacts of free speech.
@silver4067
October 20, 2025 at 2:38 pm
Completely agree. Citizen’s United staying that Money and political donations can be considered free speech brought us exactly to where we are now in authoritarianism, all under the guise that “lobbying” (corruption), is legal under the 1st amendment
@carsonhunt4642
October 20, 2025 at 4:08 pm
Your assumption mistakenly assumes that those controlling the speech aren’t corrupt or have ulterior motives.
@phoenix81194
October 21, 2025 at 1:44 am
He didn’t say “all speech is permissible” tho. It seems this links to a full length video. Maybe he’ll say something more in there than can be fit into this short?
@nin-ten-jin
October 21, 2025 at 3:03 am
@phoenix81194fair point, probably some over simplification of my own 😏
@markmuller7962
October 21, 2025 at 4:57 am
Censorship can destroy democracies just as much, if not more
@veApolo
October 20, 2025 at 3:25 pm
Let’s start with: what free speech means?
@OneMoreJames
October 20, 2025 at 3:27 pm
The fascists LOVE this argument. MAGA voters agree with you.
Odd that.
@phoenix81194
October 21, 2025 at 1:43 am
Really? Last time I checked, MAGA was busy censoring journalists. Every party loves to tout “free speech” but only when it suits them…
@OneMoreJames
October 21, 2025 at 4:17 am
@phoenix81194 Yes, that’s what they are *doing*, which is different from what they love to hear their opposition *saying*. Right?
I am having difficulty taking you seriously, since there’s no way you’ve missed all the times MAGA people have cheered/demanded their right to free speech. So I’m not sure why you disagreed with me, unless it was merely to agitate?
Whereas the Left has not censored. Please, show me the equivalence you speak of.
If you hadn’t pointed out the censoring of journalists, I’d think you were a MAGA troll.
Really.
@kamelmebhah4979
October 20, 2025 at 3:34 pm
Just like FREEDOM, Ukraine occupation is unacceptable.
Palestine occupation is acceptable
Double standard
@wikingagresor
October 20, 2025 at 8:21 pm
Starting the war and then hiding behind your own population as a human shield is not occupation. Try again…
@icraveattn
October 21, 2025 at 10:01 am
@wikingagresorso let’s stop aid from getting to the human shield victims.
@wikingagresor
October 21, 2025 at 5:10 pm
@icraveattn Of course, this so called “aid” is bs.
@icraveattn
October 21, 2025 at 5:15 pm
@wikingagresor food and medicine for starving people is BS
@wikingagresor
October 21, 2025 at 6:25 pm
@icraveattn if it is in fact food and medicine, not some ak47s with some bandages on-top.
@kamelmebhah4979
October 20, 2025 at 3:35 pm
FREEDOM FOR PALESTINIANS
@HarryGuit
October 20, 2025 at 3:37 pm
While I agree with what he said, in the current situation we experience haters and agitators demanding the right to free speech so as to use it to incite violence. Fascists made bold use of language to promote their evil plans. They lied, they denigrated on groups of people and so had their sycophants commit atrocities. It could have been useful to know what they thought if they had used free speech in this environment where everybody knows he can utter any meaning. But evil people won‘t do that until they have won and forbid free speech.
@HarryGuit
October 20, 2025 at 3:41 pm
We should be aware that free speech doesn’t mean free lies, free agitation to atrocities or racist acts, free defamation of individuals, groups or corporations. Here in Germany we learned our lesson. We defend free speech but we draw a line: agitation for fascism or violence is a crime.
@carsonhunt4642
October 20, 2025 at 4:05 pm
How right you must be, when Americans wanted to dump the tea in the harbor , they should have been told not to agitate violence and be quiet and do nothing instead..
Now you realize exactly why they don’t allow fully free speech. Similar to when a kingdom decided to overthrow a king or dictator… what better solution than to not allow discussion of it? 😅
@markmuller7962
October 21, 2025 at 4:56 am
True, in the same time you have the other side cancelling people for mondane reasons to push their ideology in the most violent way that’s possible on the internet.
(Cough cough woke reddit cough)
Never forget tha censorship is part of all tyrannical regimes, including fascism
@HarryGuit
October 21, 2025 at 2:52 pm
@markmuller7962How could I ever forget that? Needless to say.
@BurtDavis
October 20, 2025 at 4:09 pm
Some people have a hard time remembering this when they don’t agree with the words being spoken.
@wischiiiiiiiiii93
October 20, 2025 at 4:21 pm
Free speech ends where discrimination starts. Change my mind.
@wikingagresor
October 20, 2025 at 8:18 pm
Speech can’t cause discrimination, only actions can. This is every tyrant’s excuse to grab power…
@phoenix81194
October 21, 2025 at 1:39 am
Who are you to define discrimination? Is saying “biological men shouldn’t play on women’s teams” discrimination against trans people? Or is saying “trans women have every right to play on women’s teams” discrimination against cis women? When you have something as vague as “discrimination,” it’ll just shut down any and all meaningful discussion
@wischiiiiiiiiii93
October 21, 2025 at 2:15 am
@wikingagresor speaking is a form of action. Also speech creates a narrative of how the world should be. When I say free speech ends where discrimination starts. I basically mean: yea sure you can raise your concerns but if your arguments are as thin as paper and you still choose to stick to your anti human bullshit then you have no right to cry when the same thing happens to you.
@phoenix81194
October 21, 2025 at 2:58 am
@wischiiiiiiiiii93Isn’t that the principle of free speech though? You won’t suffer from *legal* ramifications for most speech, but the law won’t protect you from the social consequences
@wischiiiiiiiiii93
October 21, 2025 at 3:03 am
@phoenix81194 I claimed nothing else. I differentiate between free speech and raising concerns and active verbal discrimination. Never said anything else
@sykessaul123
October 20, 2025 at 6:47 pm
Words can be used violently though. It’s why verbal abuse is a term and in some cases can be as bad as physical abuse from the damage it does.
Free speech ends where other’s rights to be free from harassment and discrimination begin. Also, right to say what you want doesn’t give you the right to manipulate people on mass using misinformation, disinformation and psychological manipulation. Talking someone into killing or brutalising someone else still makes you liable to prosecution on conspiracy to commit those crimes, for good reason.
To oversimplify the free speech discussion and try and flatten it into black and white when in reality there are many grey areas, is not only idiotic, it’s dangerous.
@phoenix81194
October 21, 2025 at 1:41 am
Well yes. Luckily, it seems there’s a link to a full video.
@LordAugastus
October 20, 2025 at 7:06 pm
UK Australia, private websites and communities with no oversight moderation, propaganda and corporate/private have ruined speech and information.
Go figure, we are told china and Russia are authoritarian, but here in the west we literally have done the utmost to control speech and information…
@markmuller7962
October 21, 2025 at 4:48 am
Reddit in a nutshell
@dianaskarbek2664
October 20, 2025 at 7:55 pm
Right on target! 🎯 This is great 👍❤🎉
@101yayo
October 20, 2025 at 11:25 pm
People are being denied entry in US because of memes.
@markmuller7962
October 21, 2025 at 4:47 am
I’m a progressive person and I despise the woke culture for their tyrannical and confrontational ways, especially on Reddit
@loghanavery539
October 21, 2025 at 5:28 am
Work as State chairman of a nonprofit that works with FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) and they absolutely rock! They have stopped a lot of colleges from stopping freedom of speech through unconstitutional means.
@monikadeinbeck4760
October 21, 2025 at 6:35 am
some people have more free speach than others. rich people who own media outlets for instance can make their opinions be spread in such abundance it appears to be mainstream, when in reality it is only the opinion of one person.
Also insulting speech is discriminating, because it makes sensitive people withdraw from the conversation and be silenced. You can hurt with words, and if you do not regulate that, the rule of the jungle applies. Yes, logically thinking these words only give information about the speaker, but we are no robots.
@Jackie777
October 21, 2025 at 6:47 am
Freedom of speech just means freedom to express your thoughts without being persecuted by the government.
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of consequences. If you say something mean, the other person will NOT violate your rights by punching you in the face.
@Just..Junior
October 21, 2025 at 8:42 am
beautiful speech
@perj10
October 21, 2025 at 11:30 am
I believe that the Tolerance paradox must be used. The paradox of tolerance, articulated by Karl Popper, is the concept that a society’s tolerance must be unlimited to be truly tolerant. Still, unlimited tolerance could lead to its destruction by intolerant forces. The paradox suggests that a tolerant society must be intolerant of intolerance to survive.
Examples in today’s society are hate speech laws. The paradox is often used to justify laws against hate speech, as it argues that allowing speech that promotes hatred and violence undermines the tolerance of the society that permits it.
We should not subject the vulnerable/minority groups to slurs. It is possible to express oneself without harming others in the process. If you can not express yourself without harming others, you should remain quiet.
@unholyrevenger72
October 21, 2025 at 12:11 pm
LOL this idiot has never heard of Stochastic Terrorism or is so naive that he doesn’t believe it’s real.