Just because you have freedom of speech..

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doesn't mean you're safe from the consequences of what you say.

If you talk shit about another race, gender, age, or marginalized group sure, your government won't arrest you but it's not going to stop your family from abandoning you, your job from firing you, or your friends from leaving you.

Sometimes the best strategy in life is to keep your mouth closed. Most people already know this yet still choose to mess up their lives. I don't feel sorry for the people that mess up their lives.

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  • KholatKhult
    11 months ago

    Talk shit get hit. That’s reality.
    Expecting outside forces to protect you and your opinion is unrealistic.

    Bare-handed assault that does not result in serious bodily harm is legal here if there was verbal instigations or insults. Keeps people polite.
    There’s an old Soviet joke, “Americans believe they are free because nobody can hit them, Russians believe we are free because we can hit whoever we want”

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  • RoseIsabella
    11 months ago

    The more you fuck around, the more you find out.

    https://youtu.be/Zmvt7yFTtt8

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  • 1WeirdGuy
    11 months ago

    Yeah but the consequences of speech have gone too far. You see people's lives get ruined over something not even that controversial. Dr Robert Malone is a good example. He was one of the guys who invented the mRNA vaccines and said he didnt think pregnant women should get them. They canceled him and then Joe Rogan had him on his podcast so they tried to cancel Joe Rogan. He just offered his opinion and he's as qualified as anyone on the planet to talk about mRNA vaccines. I see more and more of this where people get their life ruined over an opinion when many times what they say actually turns out to be true later, or its not even that controversial.

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  • JellyBeanBandit
    11 months ago

    I agree, but I don't think it should be legal to fire someone over their opinion. It can prevent employees from speaking out about unfair working conditions for fear of being fired.

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    • Higenleth
      11 months ago

      "It can prevent employees from speaking out about unfair working conditions for fear of being fired."

      That already happens though. They're called anti syndicalist practices, and it's an entirely different topic.

      Being fired out of discrimination against religious beliefs or political inclinations is already illegal. However, saying stuff like "black people are inferior" or "women shouldn't be allowed to vote" implies you don't agree with human rights so it isn't protected by the law, and if a private company doesn't want their name to be associated to such people, the law protects their right to fire you.

      On another note, anti syndicalism (censoring or firing people because they protest for better working conditions) is illegal in my country, but I doubt it would be in the land of the free corporations lmao.

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  • darefu
    11 months ago

    Im not positive because I haven't finished thinking this all the way through. But I'm leaning towards a couple options. Ban all political groups, conversations, posts, what ever you want to call it from general social media sites. (Not really possible, I don't think)!

    OR:

    Options would be: 1. Ban/Censor almost nothing, or 2. Make separate subject categories obviously labeled with an acknowledgement block that states this is a liberal, conservative, left leaning , right leaning, communist, socialist, independent, and what ever other categories need to be put on as labels. That way if people are interested or just want to talk about stuff that they agree with they can, and if they want to look up and see another's view point they can knowing what side or leaning they are looking at. If you want to make an anti comment about a particular view and you get your post deleted or blocked you should understand why. If you want to censor what others are saying you're probably not on the right site.

    Let's face it, that's is what is happening today, except the being transparent about which way they lean or support. They try to get people to believe they are open to free speech and all viewpoints but then censor anything they don't agree with or don't want their audience to see. Leading people to believe that 85 or 90% of the audience believe or agree with them and their views.

    Tldr: Either all, Nothing, or Categorized with labels.

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