What does it mean to have a right to a belief or an opinion. Is part of the right to your opinion the right to express your opinion? If it doesn't involve this, then what kind of a right is it? What does such a right protect you from. If I have a right to life, then I have the right to be protected from someone else's attempt to take my life. No one has the power to take my opinion away from me by force, so what does a right to an opinion amount to?
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These days it seems to be used as a blanket excuse to say stupid things and smear those who object to the stupid things said.
On a serious note, I would take it to mean the government cannot compel someone to say things he does not believe, nor can they prevent someone from saying things he does believe.
The current battlegrounds on this issue I think are what constitutes "hate speech", a concept I reject, and the tremendous power of a tiny group of private corporations to control the national dialogue, free from constitutional constraints against viewpoint discrimination.
It's a corollary of the equity principle, surely? :-)
Is part of the right to your opinion the right to express your opinion? All of it, I'd say, if we have to think in terms of rights. Rather like the right to vote.
Now that the Twitter files have been published, it seems that US government agencies have been directing that "tiny group of private corporations to control the national dialogue".
Seems the distance between "a conspiracy theory" and "the news" has shrunk considerably.
bmiller,
Now that the Twitter files have been published, it seems that US government agencies have been directing that "tiny group of private corporations to control the national dialogue".
Seems the distance between "a conspiracy theory" and "the news" has shrunk considerably.
Perhaps you can point to a specific instance in the Twitter files where the government directs Twitter what to publish and what not to publish, which tweets to remove and/or which to keep. I mean, it's not all nonsense, right?
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