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If freedom of speech is absolute, how come it's not applied for private spaces and for the Internet?

Last Updated: 18.06.2025 11:06

If freedom of speech is absolute, how come it's not applied for private spaces and for the Internet?

Fraud

Child pornography

You have freedom of speech. If I loan you my computer, I can tell you not to use it for certain things, because it’s mine, you have no right to use it, and if I give you permission to use it I can tell you what you can and can’t do with it.

What is your favourite colour and why?

Revealing classified information

Terroristic threats

If you’re wondering why free speech doesn’t apply to the internet, it’s because you have no right to use other people’s stuff for free.

How is it not psychopathic to use someone for sex, even if they agree?

Conspiracy

Insider trading

You have freedom to travel. If I loan you my car, I can tell you not to take it out of town, because it’s mine, you have no right to use it, and if I give you permission to use it I can tell you what you can and can’t do with it.

Is it legal to record a conversation with a therapist without their consent or the consent of the other person involved?

Trade secrets

False advertising

HIPAA violations

Does the West have a defense against China's PL17 air-air missile?

That’s what it is. You have no right to use other people’s stuff. If people let you use their stuff, they can tell you how you can use it, and they can tell you to stop using it any time they want.

No freedom is absolute.

Threats of violence

If a person stops thinking one or two words in a second or half second means he had stopped thinking for half second?

Revenge porn

Insurrection

Perjury

Why do people say African Americans act the way they do because they're poor, when the ones with money act the same?

And much, much more.

Freedom of speech does not apply to: