• ColeSloth
    57·
    1 month ago

    Says who? Who decided that free speech got an asterisk? Who makes and enforces the rules and limitations?

    • silly goose meekah@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 month ago

      Another comment explained it pretty nicely:

      But you can’t have [a platform with absolute free speech] while allowing for hate speech either because hate speech silences the voices of its target.

      It’s basically the tolerance paradox but with free speech.

      • ColeSloth
        11·
        1 month ago

        Hate speech doesn’t silence non hate speech.

    • Darkenfolk@dormi.zone
      1·
      1 month ago

      In general it’s the wider community that decides all that.

      There are consequences in holding and sharing views that are disagreeable with the community in which people share them.

      People are free to air those thoughts, but others are also free in shunning them for those thoughts.