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You can easily draw lines between "I go to Hackernews.com to read the opinions of others and encountered an opinion I don't like" and "I have to listen to ESPN commercials at the gas pump and look at Jesus billboards when I'm driving down the highway". Other states have precedent for banning billboards actually.

If you want to take the other extreme of your extreme example here, you should be ok with people driving down the street and blaring advertisements from trucks at full volume day and night.



I'm sure upthread was being sarcastic.

The trend to conflate violence and words is dangerous. While words can lead to violence, to say that words are violence tacitly allows physical retaliation for speech that the listener does not like. We learnt as children this is wrong, and it remains so for adults.




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