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Originally Posted by Brillopad
It's the left thinkers most guilty in their attempt to thwart free speech.
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Bollocks. I actually don't think the right/left divide comes into it at all. There are varying opinions on the amount of free speech we should / shouldn't be allowed on both "sides". Plenty of heavily right leaning posters on here who would happily stifle free speech (in the name of security, for example) and likewise those leaning the other way politically who would limit it far more strictly than I would ever agree with.
Case in point; this is basically what me and Kirk would PM about fairly frequently... our political opinions essentially
never aligned. Ever. BUT we were both of the opinion that everyone should be able to say pretty much whatever they want without fear of official sanction. So we used to PM each other to get an unbiased opinion on the "fairness" of responses to things, because we each knew that the other would almost certainly disagree with the
actual opinions expressed in the post, and so would only be giving an objective view on the post as it stood otherwise.
I do miss ol' Kirk's PMS. Sniffle.