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

Last Updated: 20.06.2025 00:30

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

Terroristic threats

Insurrection

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.

Do you find Anushka Sen attractive?

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.

Conspiracy

Freedom of speech does not apply to:

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Threats of violence

False advertising

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.

Why do many Hong Kong Chinese look different from the Han Chinese in mainland China?

And much, much more.

Revenge porn

No freedom is absolute.

Which Shakespeare words have completely changed meaning in modern English?

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.

Trade secrets

HIPAA violations

What's a memory from your childhood that shaped who you are today?

Child pornography

Perjury

Insider trading

Why The Simpsons stopped producing Maude Flanders episodes?

Fraud

Revealing classified information