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      Damn, now you got me defending fucking Musk on this issue.

      Freedom of speech is also the freedom to lie. However, that just means the state can’t arrest you for your speech. Nobody owes you a platform for your free speech.

      That said, Elon Musk is a turd sandwich.

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        Freedom of speech is also the freedom to lie

        Again, it is not. Freedom of speech is a freedom to receive information and exchange ideas. Not a freedom to lie.

        Are you a USian by any chance? They quite often misunderstand what freedom of speech is.

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          Again, it is.

          Show me the legalisation where it is illegal to lie. How is it enforced? Who enforces it? Who arbatrates it?

          Freedom of speech is a moral right, and nothing more. If you start arresting people on perceived lies, that is a very dangerous slippery slope. I hope that the Donald doesn’t start arresting people who he believes is lying. Where will THAT stop?

          And, no, I’m not Asian, tho I don’t understand your asking.

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            Again, it is.

            Again, it isn’t. Read the fucking definition and educated yourself.

            ‘Freedom of speech is the right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, by any means.’

            https://www.amnesty.org.uk/free-speech-freedom-expression-human-right

            https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

            And, no, I’m not Asian,

            Who was talking about Asians? I asked if you are a USian. Someone from USA. People from USA often misunderstand what freedom of speech is.

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              sigh

              Again it is.

              Neither of those links suggested that it was illegal to lie. Why not? Because it is fucking impossible to tie that rule into a working possibility. Go read your own links yourself, because it is obvious that you haven’t.

              It talks about limitations on hate speech, etc, but you can lie without hate speech.

              Freedom of speech is an ideal, and is tied to state control of speech. There are all kinds of limitations, including public safety and defamation, etc. But if I called you a Martian, obviously that is a lie. What happens? Does the free speech police lock me up?

              I’m not interested in personal attacks, by the way.

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                Again it is not.

                Neither of those links suggested that it was illegal to lie

                Which part of “the right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas” caused you trouble?

                So, are you a USian?

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                  I’m not sure if you are trolling or not, because any plain English reading is obvious

                  Your own quote, as set out below…

                  “the right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas”

                  That also applies to incorrect information ideas… or… lies. Or the truth… Or fantasy… Or anything in between…

                  It doesn’t specify truth or otherwise. You are free to assume anything you care to - but it’s not in the actual text.

                  As to your question, I have no clue about your insistence on me being whatever the thing is you keep repeating.

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                    “the right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas”

                    That also applies to incorrect information ideas… or… lies.

                    Are you a little bit slow?

                    Which part of “information” or “ideas” cover lies?

                    So, are you a USian as misunderstanding of free speach is common there?

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          Yes, but in this case we are not talking about a lie, we are talking about an opinion which you yourself consider a lie.

          It comes back to objective truth Vs opinion which I have already replied to you about.

          Regardless of this, there are cases where lying is protected by the first amendment.

          https://www.freedomforum.org/is-lying-protected-first-amendment/

          The example of where lying is not protected in the case to which we are referring would be:

          Be a provable assertion of fact (not an opinion)

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            Yes, but in this case we are not talking about a lie, we are talking about an opinion which you yourself consider a lie.

            You are going around in circles. I already told it it is fair enough - if he genuinely believed Muskler was not performing a nazi salute, it just makes him deluded. I however consider it unlikely, and if it indeed is not the case, that means he was lying.

            Furthermore, Muskler himself never denied him making a nazi salute, making people denying it even more likely to lie rather than simply being mistaken.

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        No, freedom of speech doesn’t protect you against false statements. There’s literally a ton of other laws that penalize that, depending on the context. Purgery, slander, libel, breach of contract, just to name a few.

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        That’s true and I appreciate that different opinions are often unwelcome, I’d still rather that than end up in an extremely boring echo chamber where the “conversation” is not much more than a circle jerk.

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      Well if this person truly believes it wasn’t a Nazi salute, then he’s not lying.

      I believe ghosts aren’t real, but that doesn’t mean I think anyone that has seen a ghost is lying, I truly believe that they think they saw a ghost.

      There’s a huge difference between an objective truth and a widely agreed upon opinion.

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        It’s weird that this issue only comes up when it comes to defend nazi shit and not with other things. I’ll give you a specific example: I posted this on r/ShowerThoughts: “Incest is like pissing in your gene pool”. I think it’s pretty good, but mods deleted my post because it goes against community guidelines. If I got into an argument with the mods and got banned from r/ShowerThoughts, I wouldn’t be going around crying about “freedom of speech”, because it’s dumb, and communities have rules.

        These arguments are always about normalizing nazi shit. Fuck that.

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          The difference here is that you made a post against community guidelines. Where as in this case the guy seems to have been banned for wrong think.

          I’m not arguing that communities can’t have their own rules.

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            Possibly defending Nazis was against community guidelines…? Pretty doublespeak of you to call one example “against guidelines” and the other “wrong think” and I’m sure I know why you do it.

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              We’re back to opinion Vs fact, again!

              At the end of the day, until Musk comes out and says, “it was a Nazi salute and I’m a Nazi”, it will be up to opinion and everyone has a right to share their opinion.

              and I’m sure I know why you do it.

              I really don’t appreciate the insinuation but the least you could do is grow a pair, come out and say it.

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                  If endorsing the freedom of speech makes you alt-right, then I guess I’m alt-right.

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        Well if this person truly believes it wasn’t a Nazi salute, then he’s not lying

        Agreed, that makes him deluded instead. Not many people however are stupid enough to be able to analyse Musk salute and belive it wasn’t a nazi one.

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          I’m not getting in to the Musk debate, I’m quite frankly bored of it, just let me know if he does it again.

          I’m only here to defend freedom of speech.

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            I’m just here to defend freedom of speech.

            Ensure you understand it first:

            ‘Freedom of speech is the right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, by any means.’

            https://www.amnesty.org.uk/free-speech-freedom-expression-human-right

            Thus my point that freedom of speech is not a freedom to lie or a freedom to spread hate or encourage violence (this is a general point, I am not referring to your views in particular).

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              Honestly, that’s very insulting and I don’t appreciate the insinuation. I know very well what the freedom of speech entails and I donate monthly to amnesty international.

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                Honestly, that’s very insulting and I don’t appreciate the insinuation.

                All I would say is that you picked up a very odd example to defend the “freedom of speech”.

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                  That’s just the thing, freedom of speech is for everyone, not only the people you like and agree with, this conversation has come full circle now.