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Old 05-06-2017, 08:49 AM #80
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Originally Posted by Kizzy View Post
Not at all free speech and hate speech are VERY different things. Katie Hopkins for instance crossed that line with her comment that saw her sacked from her very influential position.
I admire free speech and encourage it, that was not it.
All that has been suggesting is some posts can skirt a little to close to that line than is comfortable, and with increasing frequency.
There just seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding that "free speech" means "saying literally whatever you want, whenever you want".

That's not what it means and it never has been .
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