I know it already is but should it be?

  • howrar@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    When is freedom of speech ever not equivalent to freedom of consequences from said speech?

    • dreamy@quokk.au
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      23 hours ago

      Consequences as in the government punishing someone, and consequences as in people mocking and ostracizing someone aren’t the same thing. Just as the person who said something has the right to say that thing, other people have the right to for example not watch that person’s show anymore.