<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 11:38 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 11:06 AM Tom Nowell via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="m_3863107570585740974m_3165878224878152532ydpfc2f636ayiv4888916816"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="font-size:13px"></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px">Our courts have laws about what you can and cannot report, in order to maximise the chances of a fair trial, and I believe US courts also have restrictions. Mr Ten Names doesn't care about this, and is in trouble for it and acts surprised that free speech isn't an absolute right in the UK.<br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You are correct about the US courts. We have had far too many who have been pulling this sort of thing - including acting surprised (and then some) - entirely within the US. One particularly egregious case of recent was Alex Jones, a "shock jock" who kept denying - on a broadcast platform with a substantial audience - that the school shooting in Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012 actually took place, to the point that his audience began inflicting harm on the parents of the victims. He has consistently lost the resulting court cases, and tried to use his platform to assault the plaintiffs (and beg his audience for money to cover his legal bills, in a pattern copied by Donald Trump).</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="m_3863107570585740974m_3165878224878152532ydpfc2f636ayiv4888916816"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="font-size:13px" dir="ltr">We shall see just how severe the UK government gets when it feels public order is threatened over the next few weeks.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>One might hope that Kamala Harris - a former prosecutor and current major party candidate for President - will take notes. </div></div></div>
_</blockquote><div><br></div><div>### It is truly evil to support the state in their war on freedom of speech. </div><div><br></div><div>It is evil to act (e.g. imprison somebody) against speech, because speech is not an act.</div><div><br></div><div>The only legitimate response to speech is speech, or a refusal of association, never an act of violence.</div><div><br></div><div>Not all speech must be heard but no speech may be silenced.</div><div><br></div><div>All speech is sacred.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Rafal </div></div></div>