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If freedom of speech is absolute, how come it's not applied for private spaces and for the Internet?

14.06.2025 13:30

If freedom of speech is absolute, how come it's not applied for private spaces and for the Internet?

HIPAA violations

Revealing classified information

That’s what it is. You have no right to use other people’s stuff. If people let you use their stuff, they can tell you how you can use it, and they can tell you to stop using it any time they want.

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Terroristic threats

False advertising

Freedom of speech does not apply to:

Why do the Republican city officials at Springfield Ohio continue to deny that immigrants are eating pets to sabotage the Trump campaign, even though immigrant pet-eating is now widely believed to be true?

Insurrection

Revenge porn

Fraud

Joe Biden is not the best president we had. That would be John F. Kennedy. How is voting for Donald Trump any worse than voting for Joe Biden?

Insider trading

Conspiracy

No freedom is absolute.

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Trade secrets

And much, much more.

If you’re wondering why free speech doesn’t apply to the internet, it’s because you have no right to use other people’s stuff for free.

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You have freedom of speech. If I loan you my computer, I can tell you not to use it for certain things, because it’s mine, you have no right to use it, and if I give you permission to use it I can tell you what you can and can’t do with it.

Threats of violence

You have freedom to travel. If I loan you my car, I can tell you not to take it out of town, because it’s mine, you have no right to use it, and if I give you permission to use it I can tell you what you can and can’t do with it.

How do you handle your mother-in-law after you heard her talking badly about you in the next room?

Perjury

Child pornography