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Any paid influencers promoting the product also must disclose “any relationships between you and entities that create labeling for, advertise, market, and/or promote the products, …

USENET was the equivalent of a public square on the Internet. It was overwhelmed by spam. These networks have been curated from the get-go, for no reason other than to control spam…

I’ve made this point before: the US government has killed at least one citizen in a drone strike because he was making terrorist propaganda. Free speech, even within the loose limi…

I never bought into Obama’s hype machine, but the drone strike was carried out by the United States armed forces, who are required to not follow illegal orders; via a chain of comm…

America is founded on the idea that personal determination and defending individual liberators are paramount to a moral society I wonder what US citizen Anwar Al Awlaki would have …

Free speech isn't just an amendment for the government, it's a principle for society. Please point out a single society that has upheld absolute Free Speech as a principle for any …

I would expect making a pro-ISIS video/tweet to leave me without additional molestation from the government, yes If you made pro-ISIS materials, you can expect the US government to…

The American Constitution is the longest standing implemented constitutional document in the world. Clearly they have done something right. The American Constitution isn't optimize…

If you were to say, make a pro-ISIS video, or Tweet, would you expect to remain unmolested by the authorities in the United States? All societies set boundaries on what is acceptab…

The founding fathers of the USA had a reason for the 1st amendment. The US Supreme Court only set the modern boundaries for freedom of speech in Brandenburg v Ohio in 1969.

that's a very American stance to take. I don't mean that as an insult; I mean that Americans value individual liberty above all else. It's a modern American stance that dates back …

Facebook moderation is badly broken. After pressure from governments,they seem to have been revising a significant number of reports that they previously closed as being non-infrin…

The admins know my IP address. If I was posting from Tor, I’d have been dead-flagged automatically. If I was making violent threats, I’d have my comment killed at best. None of tho…

The current interpretation of the First Amendment dates back only to 1969. And even the US government had no qualms about ordering a drone strike on a US citizen who was engaging i…

Far more dangerous than the idea it’s trying to silence. I don't know about that. In the real world, there are homicidal maniacs, deranged ideologues trying to incite violence, pai…

Free speech absolutists love talking about unfettered free speech as being a universal good, without ever providing evidence. Has there ever been a society without any limits on sp…