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Call me not a fan of this trend. I think it's being commonly accepted because certain people think anyone in that party is a racist homophobic fascist Nazi, so it's ok to ignore the fact that speech isn't a crime, but at some point, this common acceptance is going to be abused by the ones it's currently being directed at, and they will direct it back, likely a hundred fold.
For a specific example of what I'm talking about, id point out the infamous "N word", and the banning of Samuel Clemens from school libraries. Not an unreasonable thing to do, but the fact that book bans were acquiesced to in the name of political correctness paved a road to the current hell that is going on with very broad concepts being put under the same crosshairs, which isn't reasonable at all, but bears enough similarity to be viable (and I'm not saying that as a matter of opinion, these bans are being implemented in reality)
Free speech does not cover threats.
I know you are just trying to cope, but come on. This is never how free speech worked. How would hate speech laws work? How would harassment laws work? How would restraining order work? Planning a robbery isn't free speech.
It's beyond frustrating that so often the people using free speech as a defense don't even understand the principle. Please actually educate yourself and stop listening to Trumps rants abiut "perfect phone calls".
The reason why threatening speech isn't really covered in the Constitution is because that was taken care of privately with duels at the time. But if you threatened a District Attorney or Attorney General, you might get a visit from their armed extra-legal friends. Judicial authorities can't be seen dueling.
Freedom of speech has never meant freedom from consequences.
Imagine apologizing for an actual magat nazi making fascistic death threats by saying it equals free speech.
Incredible.
Dude come on, read the article. He called up the sheriff's office and made thinly veiled death threats. There's no free speech claim to be made here, and there's no fucking way the cops would let that go.
"Actually, Everyone Loves Censorship. Even You."
https://gizmodo.com/why-censorship-is-part-of-everyday-life-section-230-1850095976