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It is particularly odd if you're in the US too though, but yes that is accurate.

Freedom of speech is not a measure of those things, it is a concept we, in the US, exported to conform other democracies to our will, with mixed success.

It became a meme amongst private persons. And it is still a meme, virally spreading words that have no congruence with the reality the words are used in.

Freedom of speech is a limitation of the government retaliating on a person solely on the basis of their speech. It is not a limitation of private persons using the government's courts to create a consequence for someone else's speech, it is not a limitation on private persons for restricting or censoring other people's speech.




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