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Freedom to say your opinion - is it absolute - or may there be restrictions?

Freedom to say your opinion - is it absolute - or may there be restrictions?

  • Freedom to say your oponion is absolute

  • Freedom to say your oponion ends, where the right of others of protection against insults begins

  • Freedom to say your oponion ends, where lying and fake news begin

  • there may also be other restrictions

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Freedom of speech ends when it is proved to be a lie.

Freedom of speech ends when it promotes illegal conduct (such as violence).

Freedom of speech ends (for good people) when it unnecessarily hurts people's feelings. (Look at the tennis player who broke down when someone in the stands yelled something like "You s*ck [as a tennis player].") And, of course, when it comes to ethnicity, no one has the right to utter hurtful epithets.

Nature gave us human beings the gift of speech. It should be handled with responsibility.
 
Rumpel said:
Also in written form?
Publically in a newspaper?
If you are not speaking of a politician etc, but of a normal private person?
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Yes, as long as what you are saying is a matter of opinion. You can't spread defamatory lies about someone (particularly if they aren't a public figure), but you can insult them all you want. Calling someone an idiot is fine, in public or in writing.
 
Gatsby said:
Calling someone an idiot is fine, in public or in writing.
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I am not so sure if that is a good thing ....
Who has an advantage because of it?
What good comes from it?
 
Rumpel said:
I am not so sure if that is a good thing ....
Who has an advantage because of it?
What good comes from it?
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If people weren't legally allowed to call private citizens idiots in writing, half the political debates on this forum would be censored. :D
 
Gatsby said:
If people weren't legally allowed to call private citizens idiots in writing, half the political debates on this forum would be censored. :D
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Well - internet forums are a special case - even in Germany. :cool:
 
Im an absolutist
 
freedom of speech and freedom of the press is not the problem today.......ignorant lazy people are the problem......conservatism by its nature rejects change ......and they are all for freedom of speech as long as they agree with the speech given.......I have an extreme dislike of Fox and all the other ultra right talking heads in the media but they must be free to spout their venom regardless
 
Rumpel said:
Freedom to say your of opinion - is it absolute - or may there be restrictions?
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1A in part states, "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..." Various statutes and judicial decisions have extended that to most, if not all, Federal, state, and local government entities.

What many don't seem to understand is that, with limited exceptions such as slander and libel, it does not apply to private entities. That said...

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