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fasterik • today at 7:55 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Free speech absolutists can still have opinions, criticize others, and choose who to associate with. They're not advocating for censorship or legal penalties for speech.


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simoncion • today at 8:14 PM

Yep. "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." and similar such sentiments.

One can publicly declare a speaker to be a wrongheaded pig that all decent people should ignore, but that's a wholly different thing from ensuring that said pig is unable to utter its wrongheaded ideas in public.

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