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Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online

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693 points macawfish | 1 comments | 12 Jul 25 18:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.306s | source
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smallmancontrov ◴[12 Jul 25 18:51 UTC] No.44544139[source]▶
"Party of free speech," my ass.
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zeroonetwothree ◴[12 Jul 25 19:22 UTC] No.44544391[source]▶
Neither of the two parties is very much in favor of free speech. The left has cancel culture and policing pronouns while the right has blocking books with gay characters and age verification laws.
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archagon ◴[12 Jul 25 19:55 UTC] No.44544650[source]▶
“Cancel culture” is not government policy (and never was).
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1. istjohn ◴[12 Jul 25 21:09 UTC] No.44545181[source]▶
No, but it is endemic to American colleges and universities which are government or government-funded institutions.

Furthermore, spend a little time on BlueSky and you will find huge support for the hate speech laws found in other countries.

Finally, the distinction between government regulation of speech and private regulation of speech is key in the court of law, but it is almost irrelevant from the point of view of a philosophy that values open inquiry, debate, and dissent as indispensible to human dignity and progress.