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Originally Posted by Livia

People whine because they can't say someone's a **** on twitter, or tell bereaved parents that they're happy their child is dead, or that some other fate has befallen them. That's what I mean. I've seen it on here when people have been arrested for trolling, people saying "what about their freedom of speech". That's what I'm talking about.

True, people shouldn't feel free to be slanderous or to deliberately set out to needlessly cause upset unprovoked, but I think those sorts if things are often used as an excuse to remove genuine freedoms and in my opinion that is something worth being concerned about. If we're happy to say "oh we shouldn't complain, it's worse elsewhere!" every time... We might not always be able to.