In a larger scale of rights overall, your rights to do something should end when it restricts other people's rights. No one person should be above another. Not really how the world works, but it's the idealistic goal.
Comment on What are your thoughts on people who say hate speech is free speech?
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Free speech is the idea that anyone can voice their own opinions, yes. However, if these opinions hurts others or restrict their free speech in some way, I feel like that shouldn’t be allowed. I think most people would probably agree with this.
“Hate speech” is a very broad term that describes all sorts of nasty ideas, but let’s give an example of a bigot who wants to relinquish women’s suffrage (right to vote) and is advocating for this idea in a public area. This would be an attempt to block the free speech of women, and should not be allowed! You could replace this with other discriminated communities, bigots hate anything that’s even a little bit different from themselves.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 days ago
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Of note, looking at their post history, the original poster seems to have unfavourable views on transgender folks. Yikes!