• katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    why does nobody know what the concept of free speech actually is? it literally means congress will make no law restricting your right to assemble or speak as long as it doesn’t infringe on anyone else’s rights to do the same

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      11 months ago

      It’s because the people who pick and choose what the constitution is to them are the same people who pick and choose parts of The Bible. They believe they’re always right and they don’t want anyone to ever tell them they’re wrong.

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      11 months ago

      Well no. Freedom to assemble is entirely different from free speech. Both are protected by the First Amendment.

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        11 months ago

        The first amendment to the Constitution of the United States protects:

        • The right to speak, specifically the right to political speech and to be critical of the administration or its officers
        • The right to practice religion (right now this is being used to override other rights and duties)
        • The right to publish, as per above
        • The right to assemble with others
        • The right to petition your representatives in office for redress of grievances.

        When Justice Amy Coney Barrett was being reviewed for her bench position, she couldn’t remember the last one.

        But Pepperidge Farm remembers.

    • BreakDecks@lemmy.ml
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      You’re confusing the “concept of free speech” with America’s Constitutional protection of free speech (the First Amendment).

      This is some peak America-brain to suggest that free speech only exists in the USA. I assure you, outside of America’s borders, nobody is referencing the First Amendment when they talk about free speech, and the concept as you so condescendingly claim to be the expert on is not limited to government restriction.

      • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        11 months ago

        calm yourself i was obviously talking about the website usa today based in the usa. im not even from the usa…