mrneil@sh.itjust.works to Enough Musk Spam@lemmy.world · 1 year agoWon't someone think of the hate speech!?sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1294file-text
arrow-up1294imageWon't someone think of the hate speech!?sh.itjust.worksmrneil@sh.itjust.works to Enough Musk Spam@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square39fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePunnyName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-21 year agoEven censorship is a form of free speech. Example: I used to be homeless in Los Angeles. During that time, an Occupy Wall Street protester wrote on the ground in chalk “fuck the police”. A passerby was upset at this, and they poured water over the “fuck”, erasing it. Both the protestor and the passerby had expressed themselves in their own way.
Even censorship is a form of free speech.
Example: I used to be homeless in Los Angeles. During that time, an Occupy Wall Street protester wrote on the ground in chalk “fuck the police”.
A passerby was upset at this, and they poured water over the “fuck”, erasing it.
Both the protestor and the passerby had expressed themselves in their own way.