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Who decideds what is free speech and what is a conspiracy theory? For a long time saying tabaco creates lung cancers was basically a conspiracy theory and sayi
by Lionga 4mo ago
Who decideds what is free speech and what is a conspiracy theory?
For a long time saying tabaco creates lung cancers was basically a conspiracy theory and saying it is healthy was free speech.
- jyounker 4mo agoSince at least the 70s everyone knew that it caused lung cancer. It's just that industry spending prevented anyone from doing something about it, in the exactly the same way that we've been seeing with global warming.
- pstuart 4mo agoAgain, free speech as commonly used, is about Constitutional protection from the government trying to curtail and/or punish individual's speech. Prior to the internet, the "free speech" you're thinking of was down to whoever owned the printing press of interest. The OP was about the government punishing a woman for criticizing their public utility.
- jyounker 3mo agoI wasn't replying to the OP.