beebarfbadger @ beebarfbadger @lemmy.world

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You may be surprised to hear that the situation is a bit more nuanced than that because freedom of speech is not, in fact, an unlimited freedom. Wherever different rights and freedoms overlap and endanger each other, every society must weigh them against each other and sometimes give preference to one freedom by limiting another. That means that certain ways of using free speech are not protected. One layman's example that one keeps hearing would be shouting "fire" in a crowded theater. Certain calls for violence can be criminally prosecuted because they would endanger other people's right to live, for example.

The reason behind these limitations to freedom of speech is the so-called "paradox of tolerance". In essence, it says that a democratic society that tolerates even attempts to overthrow its core tenets will be upended by destructive ideologies unless active steps are taken to prevent that. While the absolutely tolerant society is basically a buffet to slaughter and usurp for authoritarian ideologies, a democratic society that wants to survive needs to be a defensive democracy that limits attacks on its core values. And there's an excellent case to be made that the nazi ideology is in its very core not compatible with a democratic society, so much so that in multiple countries like for example germany, it is illegal to shout "heil hitler" or use one's freedom of expression to further the nazi ideology. And they are speaking from experience.

everyone should have the right of their opinion an no one should be silenced or eliminated

You are contradicting yourself. Tolerating nazis literally means allowing a group that sports the core dictum that they are justified in silencing and eliminating whomever they deem fair game. The topic has been discussed and the result is settled since 1945. We had a whole war about it. The group of people who think they should get to kill everybody they say is inferior to them does not get to participate.

every effort to control access to guns (even those the majority of Republicans want

The only people relevant in this discussion are the lobbyists who buy the politicians who ensure that the NRA's bottom line only ever goes up.

https://xkcd.com/927/

How to do efficiency:

Step 1) take over corporation/government entity and fire everybody who is getting paid. Strain the rest way beyond their breaking point until they can't deliver anymore either.

Now you may be thinking "won't this completely destroy the company's ability to even function?", and you'd be right, but that's fine as long as you

Step 2) blame the liberals.

Step 3) ???

Step 4) Profit!

Fortunately, they were lethally informed.

NRA, who would gladly supply the weapons - for a price, of course - says YES!!!

Now, I hear you say, that would preemptively arm any wannabe school shooters and eliminate any leftover threshold for their shooting sprees, but the NRA has a solution to that problem too: more fear of guns means more people buying more guns to protect themselves from all the guns in circulation.

It's beautiful, isn't it? * wipes away single tear with dollar signs in both eyes *

Again: nobody is complaining that you can make AI spit out their training data because AI is the only source of that training data. That is not the issue and nobody cares about AI as a delivery source of pirated material. The issue is that next to the transformed output, the not-transformed input is being in use in a commercial product.

You and elon will just have to legally fight out the question of who invented the idea of building specific infrastructurally distinct transit ways specific to a certain type of vehicle optimised for transporting goods and people along those railroad tracks I mean hyperloops.

Well now you got something black on white that you can cite and point to for collected evidence. That's... something?

The issue isn't that you can coax AI into giving away unaltered copyrighted books out of their trunk, the issue is that if you were to open the hood, you'd see that the entire engine is made of unaltered copyrighted books.

All those "anti hacking" measures are just there to obfuscate the fact that that the unaltered works are being in use and recallable at all times.

360 noscope tool-assisted speedrun

Oh no. Have they tried insulting their mods, taking away their perfectly fine moderation tools, replacing them with objectively worse advertisement-delivery-first apps and taunting everybody who disagrees with that decision before forcibly suppressing any protests and banning dissenting voices? Maybe that'll help making the sub attractive for content creators.

"Also, why keep pretending? Texas judge immediately declares case won by Musk, saves everyone time they could be spending on paid vacations instead."

If Godzilla is moving in that direction in the OP picture, then Riker's trajectory means he's currently preparing for entry.

So when he says "make it great again", he means to bring back the good old days of unbridled corruption in the government. That tracks.

Gornzilla

Grab them by the sacred places. When you're rich, they let you do it.

Harris would be center-right in any other developed country, but in the US, any position left of hunting the homeless for sport is immediately decried as communism, so there's the internal impression that in comparison to the ultra-extremists that make up the right, she is - relatively speaking - progressive.

If I may propose a counterpoint: all that, in some cases, sure, but certainly also other cases where they started out under the umbrella of the right's airtight propaganda screen and simply never bothered to get a second opinion, reinforced by the cult-like indoctrination claiming that everybody else is lying anyway.

Propaganda works and it takes an active effort, an effort that is severely discouraged by the existing propaganda environment, to seek out a reality check.

However, while such cases may exist, it is getting harder and harder as time goes on to justify sticking to the FOX propaganda bubble at this point.