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

12.06.2025 02:23

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

Insurrection

Perjury

Revealing classified information

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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.

Freedom of speech does not apply to:

Conspiracy

Should Pete Rose's record as the all-time hits leader be recognized and celebrated?

Trade secrets

Revenge porn

Fraud

Why can’t my wife just accept the fact that I’m going to cheat?

HIPAA violations

No freedom is absolute.

Terroristic threats

Is the Philippines PH a poor 3rd world or 4th world country forever and forever?

Insider trading

Child pornography

False advertising

If a person stops thinking one or two words in a second or half second means he had stopped thinking for half second?

And much, much more.

Threats of violence

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.

What is truer than that which is true?

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.

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.