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

Last Updated: 17.06.2025 09:01

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

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.

Fraud

Conspiracy

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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.

False advertising

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.

Does the pro-choice movement realise that all the money used to subside abortions can be used to subsidize daycare and other financial support for single mothers with unplanned pregnancies?

HIPAA violations

And much, much more.

Trade secrets

Why do some children hate their parents?

Insurrection

Freedom of speech does not apply to:

Revenge porn

What steps have you taken to stop being a targeted individual by gang stalkers? What has worked, what would you have done differently?

Insider trading

Terroristic threats

Threats of violence

What is the definite integral of x^x from 0 to 2?

Child pornography

No freedom is absolute.

Revealing classified information

Why doesn't California have the tools, people, means to put out these fires even though they know there will be fires every year?

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.

Perjury