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1. bofade+j2[view] [source] 2025-04-05 18:17:11
>>smnrg+(OP)
This is free speech. It's not open for discussion.

Our right to free speech is not granted by anyone's consent or by government decree. It preexists the state and cannot be taken away.

We hold this truth to be self-evident. We are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights.

If any government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it.

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2. vaindi+93[view] [source] 2025-04-05 18:22:44
>>bofade+j2
I feel that this is a very black and white view of the issue. I don't want to see billboards as I drive down the freeway, but I have no choice (in the US) if I need to get somewhere far away. Several states have banned outdoor billboards, should those governments be dissolved?

At some point the public interest overrides an absolute freedom of speech. We can debate where that line is, but "it's not open for discussion" is objectively incorrect.

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3. bofade+p3[view] [source] 2025-04-05 18:24:05
>>vaindi+93
It's just paraphrasing the declaration of independence. This is already the established world order.

You have an extremist point of view that your right to free speech is granted to you by the government.

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4. vaindi+Uf[view] [source] 2025-04-05 19:41:52
>>bofade+p3
I'm not sure what comment you meant to reply to, but it certainly wasn't mine, as you have my ideology backwards there.
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