How much free speech is too much free speech?

[💗Freddie Freaker💗]

Free speech is a nice concept, but letting people say whatever they want can cause trouble. Absolute free speech would let pedophiles openly share guides on how to kidnap newborns and it would allow people to legally yell THERE'S A FIRE in a crowded theater even if there is no fire. So what should the limit be, in your opinion?

 

[Lemmingwise]

Any free speech is too much free speech.

 

[A Welsh Cake]

fuck niggers

 

[Meat Pickle]

The popular consensus is that the limit of free speech is reached when someone life's is directly in danger. Hence this is why death threats, making false warnings, and the promotion of terrorism is not widely accepted.

 

[Where Do You Find Them?]

When people start saying things I don't like.

 

[NerdShamer]

The popular consensus is that the limit of free speech is reached when someone life's is directly in danger. Hence this is why death threats, making false warnings, and the promotion of terrorism is not widely accepted.

Tell that to the troons in the UK.

 

[Meat Pickle]

Tell that to the troons in the UK.

Like as if the UK ever supported free speech.

 

[Fascist Frederick]

How come speech is the one thing liberals don't want free?

 

[Oskar Dirlewanger]

Theres no so such thing as "too much free speech", it's just people feeling hurt in their butts cuz a take too spicy

 

[Idiotron]

For example, when someone says you're a pedophile and they make false accusations which get picked up by the media and law enforcement, that shit shouldn't fall under free speech and should be heavily penalized.
I would go with the false accuser getting the same sentence as the accused would if the accusation was true.

 

[Revo]

Anarchy is the level max. of free speech in my regard.

 

[MAPK phosphatase]

When people who hold my ideals are in power; the limits to free speech are when people I don't like start saying things I disagree with.

When people who oppose my ideals are in power; the only limits to free speech are outright libel and slander.

 

[A Cardboard Box]

You should be able to exercise whatever rights you want until you start to infringe on the rights of others.

 

[Pathos]

You should be able to exercise whatever rights you want until you start to infringe on the rights of others.

As much as I agree with this, people use that argument to say that mean words disempower others or promote ideas that make it so minorities are at a disadvantage in the US.

 

[A Cardboard Box]

As much as I agree with this, people use that argument to say that mean words disempower others or promote ideas that make it so minorities are at a disadvantage in the US.

Okay but "disempowering" someone isn't infringing on their rights. Reporting a false crime to get someone locked up is a crime because you use your words to directly impede someone else's freedoms. You do not have a right to not have your feelings hurt.

 

[Harnessed Carcass]

@nippleonbonerfart is anti-child abuse guides, weak af

 

[Pathos]

Okay but "disempowering" someone isn't infringing on their rights. Reporting a false crime to get someone locked up is a crime because you use your words to directly impede someone else's freedoms. You do not have a right to not have your feelings hurt.

I’m not arguing that it is, what I’m saying is that some people see it as that and use that to justify censorship.

 

[Pomniman]

Anything outside of things like yelling fire in a crowded theater, direct credible and serious threats, or speech that's directly and provably (beyond a reasonable doubt) involved in the commission of a non-speech related crime (like planning a murder/robbery) should be allowed.

 

[Napoleon Bonerfart]

@nippleonbonerfart is anti-child abuse guides, weak af

Child abuse guides are for scrubs and newbies. Real street niggas know how to traffic children without even trying.

 

[Takodachi]

Any speech that directly leads to someone getting physically hurt, or their property can be destroyed.