[ExI] Social Media Bans

[SR Ballard]

I’m saying that speech means saying something, or a representation of saying something (written language, recorded speaking). 

Free speech should cover speech. It’s not that complicated. 

SR Ballard

> On Aug 5, 2021, at 10:13 PM, Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 at 11:43, SR Ballard via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> Distributing a video and speaking are not the same. It is perfectly illegal to share many videos, which does not curtail my free speech at all. 
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>> Advocating for something is not the same as sharing explicit videos of the rape of children. 
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> You’re saying that some types of information sharing should be allowed and other types should not be allowed, but only the types that should be allowed should be called “free speech”.
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>> SR Ballard
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>>>> On Aug 5, 2021, at 9:21 PM, Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>>> On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 at 11:03, SR Ballard via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>> It’s not free speech to share child porn. It is free speech to talk about disgusting things.
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>>> The only reason not to call it a limitation in free speech is if you think child pornography should be limited but free speech should not, because that would lead to a contradiction.
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