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

13.06.2025 01:40

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

Terroristic threats

Trade secrets

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.

Utah health officials monitoring potential measles exposure in southwestern Utah - KSL.com

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.

Conspiracy

Threats of violence

Sydney Sweeney and the business of being hot - Yahoo

False advertising

Insider trading

No freedom is absolute.

Need a different reason to eat more fiber? How about microplastics? - The Seattle Times

HIPAA violations

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.

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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Fraud

And much, much more.

Revenge porn

Why doesn't California have the tools, people, means to put out these fires even though they know there will be fires every year?

Freedom of speech does not apply to:

Insurrection

Revealing classified information

How rough can the ferry passage from Hull to Rotterdam be in the autumn ( at the end of October )?

Child pornography

Perjury