Freeze Peach 🍑 (USA)

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But I can say why I’m concerned about the harms being done be free speech laws so I might as well.

From last year, when murderous Nazi street marches were still a slippery-slope hypothetical:

Is it hypocritical for free speech advocates to moderate comments on their own site?

A few examples of negative consequences, defended on free speech grounds in the US, which would be regulated, prohibited or prosecuted in many other countries: Citizen’s United / US campaign finance and advertising in general: among the reasons why Australian elections are so much cheaper and faster than in the US is that we regulate time and manner of political advertising, limit political donations and prosecute conflict-of-interest corruption. Revenge porn: this sort of violation of privac…