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• Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I feel like you misunderstand what free speech is.

  Calling someone out for any opinion is part of free speech.

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  • npdean@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Makes sense

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    • Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      To elaborate, the ability to call someone out is literally “free speech”. The backlash you may get for said call out, in speech form, is also part of free speech.

      If the government locks you up for what you said, that is not free speech.

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Arguably it’s also not free speech if a community allows targeted harassment campaigns but that certainly doesn’t apply to random single comments and moderators exist to hopefully prevent or minimize that.

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• voracitude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Free speech just means the government isn’t allowed to punish you for only saying things (and even that had a whole constellation of big fuckin asterisks on it). Free speech does not mean freedom from consequences.

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• AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you are calling out someone for their non-conventional opinion, you are against free speech.

  Nope, that’s not what that means. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of consequences of your speech and it doesn’t mean guaranteed anonymous speech. And as far as the constitution is concerned, the right to freedom of speech only means the government can’t stop you from expressing your opinion.

  So you have the right to say what you want without government interference, but other people can tell you that what you said is shitty, your employer can fire you because you opinion isn’t consistent with their values, the forum/venue where you expressed your opinion can ban you, etc.

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