I’m not convinced you actually understand what the american constitutional free speech principle is meant to address.

“I believe you should kill yourself” is an opinion, even if it’s an opinion about someone conducting self harm, and it’s absolutely an opinion that should be censored

The problem with couching your understanding of ‘free speech’ within the american legal concept of free speech is that amendment doesn’t actually cover the types of speech and contexts under which most of its advocates are applying it to, nor should it. People deserve to be able to dictate the types of speech they allow in their own spaces, and that includes shit takes from reactionary shitheads on social media. Nazis should not be allowed to waltz into a jewish space and deny the holocaust - or rather, the people in that space should be able to kick that nazi out of their fucking community. It’s why reddit can get away with censoring speech relating to Musk and Luigi, and it’s why various lemmy instances might periodically tell you to get fucked for your various terrible opinions.

Free speech absolutists are some of the worst kinds of internet people.

Don’t worry, I read the context, and I still think it’s plenty misogynistic.

I can see why you might “get shit on by both sides”

I am a free speech absolutionist

i have to assume you draw the line somewhere, though. Like, as an example, I imagine you probably support the censorship of calls to violence? Or, as a hypothetical, advocating for someone to conduct self-harm?

Free speech absolutists tend to be the only ones defending some of the most depraved and harmful types of ‘speech’ imaginable, and they honestly don’t have any place in a federated community. I agree with imogen - if that’s your perspective you can definitely fuck off

Yea, it might be a hexbear defed instance though

https://lemmy.zip/comment/17782977

Took about 30 seconds

And I would feel fairly confident that the commenter was a woman because attacking someones personality (that they don’t know at all) is typically done by women

We could quibble about where the ‘moderate’ stance actually is, but i find it more refreshing to debate the nuances of differing leftist stances rather than deal with brain-dead reactionary takes that i find in the typical reddit community

I don’t think most Americans realize just how rightward their politics have been pushed over even the last 15 years

It’s been said for a while: if you’re doing anything remotely questionable (even just attending a protest or meeting with friends to plan one) do not even bring your phone. Even a dumb phone will ping cell towers and record your relative location.