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

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693 points macawfish | 2 comments | 12 Jul 25 18:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.421s | 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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const_cast ◴[12 Jul 25 21:01 UTC] No.44545130[source]▶
Cancel Culture is actually just the free market, the invisible hand, at work.

What is a boycott but cancel culture? The idea of the free market is that good behaviors and products emerge because consumers "vote" with their wallet. If a company has bad values I don't support then I don't shop there. Enough people do that and the company collapses. So, what remains is an economy where every company acts virtuously.

Theoretically. Then enters propaganda and the GOP. They tell you this invisible hand is bad, and companies should be able to do anything. At a glance this appears to be free speech, but it's not - it's the exact opposite.

You see, they can say anything they want, but we can't. We may not criticize them. Our opinions are not valid, they're "Cancel Culture".

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istjohn ◴[12 Jul 25 21:34 UTC] No.44545380[source]▶
Interesting argument. But I think cancel culture often has more in common with a lynch mob than a boycott.
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1. const_cast ◴[12 Jul 25 21:52 UTC] No.44545506[source]▶
A lynch mob is a boycott, especially when they aren't lynching. Lynch mob used to mean something literally, when people did lynching. Now it just means "a bunch of people don't like someone and don't financially support them".

That's a boycott.

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2. MangoToupe ◴[13 Jul 25 01:18 UTC] No.44546670[source]▶
People still get actually lynched.