Is freedom of speech only for liberals?

[Anonymous]

Let’s face it conservatives can’t say whatever they want without consequences the same way liberals can.

[Ozanne]

I'm not sure what the problem conservatives have unless they want to spew hate speech, which is not to be confused with free speech. While we're at it, please know what free speech really means. In short: It's the ability to say something without having to be convicted by the law or even killed for your words. Sad if someone feels like they have no free speech to be able to call someone slurs, usually on websites where they agree to its terms and conditions, or in businesses that are privately owned and don't owe anyone a platform.

[RealMarek]

Private corporations do not have a right to do whatever they want, to become monopolies, or to collude with each other, all of which are happening now in the name of curating speech. For example, telephone companies were prohibited from suspending accounts due to speech because they were an important means of communication that, for a long time, was controlled by a monopoly. The government intervened to protect free speech from the possibility of people who didn’t owe anyone a platform imposing private controls.

[goaded]

It's probably that most liberals say things that most people agree with (like there should be more firearm regulation, health insurance should be affordable, leave people who aren't harming you alone...), whereas the people you call conservatives are calling for horrendous things (like limiting the freedoms of people who don't look, act, or believe like them, and by "limiting the freedoms of", many mean "locking up" or "killing").

[Curmudgeon]

Well, fight back. Take inspriation from this Daily Wire journalist, Michael Knowles, who delivers a nice smackdown to this Leftist scrunt. It was better than a gut punch to her, which she also needs, but I digress:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9mYC0gc_K6s

[jshm2]

Firstly, there is no such thing as "freedom of speech". What you mean is "permissible speech within the bounds of law"

This is why conservatives and fuckwit right wingers fall flat. What speech the law allows, is changing all the time, sometimes even within the year. Cons and right wing retards think the laws are still the "same" from the Jim Crow era. Hence why they fall foul when their hate speech is prosecuted as such.

[RealMarek]

Interesting. So what is freedom of speech in the context of the first amendment? Is the Constitution just dead letter?

[NaultD]

You have as much freedom to say things as much as people what to hear them. You're never going to be sent to a gulag and you can shout into the void as much as you want but you can't make people care beyond that.

[SPIRIT208]

No, they are allowed to, but not supported as much. Liberals are just the loudest, and are not the majority. In modern society the size of the movement doesn’t matter, it’s about how loud they can say it

[inhua]

the only speech that is allowed is one that supports the myth of a systemically racist prudish patriarchy that hates the planet

[AngryCarl2]

Maybe avoid lying about the election and telling people to take bleach for Covid? Not that lying about the election is illegal but it's not helping to promote democracy.

[exitseven]

I do not buy into it. I speak my mind and if people don't like it they can argue with me or else stay out of my face.

[BarryLiverstone]

All speech has consequences. Both sides whine about free speech

[Anonymous]

Correct, and they have the nerve to call conservatives fascist.

[Spongebobssocks]

Yup lol... its the world we live in now

[Anonymous]

You are correct.

[Anonymous]

Nah, it’s all in your head

[Pterodon]

You got it