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0 pointsengineer_224y ago0 comments

Maybe you don't pay to use the internet, but I do.

If the government froze my bank account so I couldn't pay my phone bill, I wouldn't be free to speak to you right now.

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That's not true. You just wouldn't be free to speak on this medium.

I don't have the right to speak in the Queen's bedroom in Buckingham Palace, either.

Neither of those things are significant limitations on the freedom of speech.

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0 pointsengineer_224y ago0 comments

Maybe you don't pay to use the internet, but I do.

If the government froze my bank account so I couldn't pay my phone bill, I wouldn't be free to speak to you right now.

That's not true. You just wouldn't be free to speak on this medium.

I don't have the right to speak in the Queen's bedroom in Buckingham Palace, either.

Neither of those things are significant limitations on the freedom of speech.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse