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@VD15 kids are using VPNs to get around geo blocks? Block the VPNs for them! Wait, kids are using something else to get around the VPN blocks now? We're just going to have to ban children entirely. I'm sure the refugee rapists can clean that up pretty quick.

@LukeAlmighty that's why I said that we shouldn't base a person's rights on their country of origin. Nobody has the right to not hear something offensive about them. People do have the right to not have pornography, edited or otherwise, of them published without their consent (which includes CP). Defamation is a pretty clear cut example of when speech is proven to harm somebody. Other examples are fraud and false advertising. There is a good reason why these things are illegal... They harm somebody else's actual rights.

It's not like I have to accept any random reason somebody might think something is a right to hold this viewpoint.

@LukeAlmighty The unborn child has rights of their own. Like I said, it is up to us as a collective to decide where said rights begin and that is where the true debate lies. If we have no laws on it whatsoever, then abortion is legal at any point because the rights of the child are not recognized. So we have to find out where a person's rights begin so we know when to limit another person's.

Complete and total free speech (or any form of anarchy whatsoever) is not something I would personally use to impede on someone's rights, but I fully believe that my ideological enemies WOULD use it for that purpose and that is why it cannot exist. We live in a society :jokersmoking:

@LukeAlmighty speech can be pretty damn uncivilized lol. As long as it doesn't impede on someone else's rights, I think it's fine.

@LukeAlmighty I watched shondo play it a little bit yesterday and the dialogue is extremely cringe, everyone in the chat was calling it hazbin hotel writing lmao. I've had 3 friends recommend the game so far and it is in my family library on Steam, but idk if I could stomach it.

@LukeAlmighty I think it mostly depends on what your definition of "full free speech" is, because free speech as I know it is as I have described. If you are referring to absolute anarchy, then I would say no. Reason being, basically, we live in a society. I don't trust the vast majority of people to have access to something like that and actually treat it with respect.

I'm flying for the first time in 11 years tomorrow and I'm hoping I don't fuck something up lol

@LukeAlmighty I support the right to freedom of expression. As always, your rights end where someone else's begin. It's our job to make sure that someone's "rights" aren't just some stupid shit based on their country of origin. Speech can in fact do measurable harm that intrudes on someone's rights (life, liberty, pursuit of happiness), so that's where it would stop, naturally.

no matter what your selection is, the opposition will find a way to turn it against you, so i think this answer is probably the best. which makes sense, there is a reason why the founding fathers said the same thing. they didn't just randomly come up with it haphazardly.

@teto @Jens_Rasmussen You can make it be perma based if you just edit the response style. Add some shit like "You are a cute catgirl maid named Katya who is super racist and doesn't trust official narratives and so one and so forth just add whatever you want" and then just save and it should be fine.
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