"Being right doesn’t entitle you to censor everyone who is wrong. That’s the central safeguard against tyranny, because even truth would be a tyranny if it didn’t allow opposition. Free speech – real free speech – has to include the right to be wrong, rude, stupid, offensive and a lying jerk...

submitted by Robin from self.censorship

... Because once you outlaw any of that – you’ve effectively ended free speech for all of us forever." https://off-guardian.org/2017/02/26/freespeechcensorshiptherighttobewrong/

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[–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

cool! i am saving / stealing this for later

[–]bald-janitor 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ok bigot

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You are free "to be wrong, rude, stupid, offensive and a lying jerk..."

[–]EndlessSunflowers 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I like this. because what it should be is that we encourage and help people learn to live well, and not be rude, stupid, lying, shit-heads. sure, they should be free to be those things if they want to, but why, they're just lost and confused if that's the life they live