Topic on User talk:Max Sinister

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One of the fundamental ''points'' of free speech is that if it's free, then people get to say things you don't like. Once you put limits (above and beyond those required by law) on what is acceptable speech, then it is no longer free speech -- it becomes "speech of which I approve -- and only speech of which I approve".
One of the fundamental ''points'' of free speech is that if it's free, then people get to say things you don't like. Once you put limits (above and beyond those required by law) on what is acceptable speech, then it is no longer free speech -- it becomes "speech of which I approve -- and only speech of which I approve". Which is what happened at TV Tropes, to the point that the mods routinely deleted any user comments they didn't want to hear -- or have other users see.


It's a strange and worrisome preoccupation you have, that you think our stand on free speech and intellectual freedom is made exclusively for the benefit of pedophiles. One would think you have an ulterior motive for coming here and then fixating unwaveringly on the topic.
It's a strange and worrisome preoccupation you have, that you think our stand on free speech and intellectual freedom is made exclusively for the benefit of pedophiles. One would think you have an ulterior motive for coming here and then fixating unwaveringly on the topic.