Free Speech
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2010
'Free markets', 'tolerance', 'pacifism', 'free speech' etc.. are what physicists call 'effective theories' and require warning labels.
Obscenity charges against Gonzo pioneer John Stagliano are dropped! Miller v California remains a menace to free speech http://bit.ly/aVTowv
2011
The "Free speech zone" = X was invented & named in the USA = Y in 1988. Q: Name its even more important set-theoretic complement Y \ X.
2016
Confused by people promoting free speech by being deliberately offensive when you can offend many more people by simply thinking clearly.
If you don't define free speech movement goals carefully, you end up complaining about the free speech of others that inhibits yours.
I'm not as focused on free speech as I am around the "Don't worry, contrarian intellectuals. You'll still have a job on Monday."-movement.
2017
While often tempted, I'm not a free speech absolutist. I'm an anti-utopian w a commitment to keep our world safe from well meaning utopians.
Most of my friends who are free speech absolutists have never run the simulator forward to see the dystopia total free speech would create.
I like free speech but not absolute free speech. The US is the finer but not the latter.
Conclusion: my engagement patterns changed. Some of it is likely algorithmic. We should have a free speech option: time ordered, no filters.
We're standing up to mob rule to fight for universal civil rights, academic freedom, science & free speech. Safety NOT guaranteed.
Want in?
Many have urged me to follow @jordanbpeterson's lead these last 2 weeks--friends, students, strangers. I'm listening
VOICE OVER: We've secretly replaced Free-Speech America w new improved Sharia-compliant blasphemy-free America. Let's watch folks' reaction!
Berkeley used to be Free Speech Center! Now KPFA Cancels Richard Dawkins talk because he criticizes Islam? Shame!
Clay, you weren't in a comedy club & your right to free speech wasn't infringed. You just put a colleague in a no win situation...& she won!
Here's @cnn video of me saying I love the first amendment and boobs that nearly shut down the network. So great:
5/ My point's simple. These issues are tricky & we've all screwed them up. But we don't just get to say any old thing. There are rules here. End/ This isn't the crime of the century. But it's also not fair. There are implicit rules about jokes & flirting that aren't "free speech."
On the death of @hughhefner, I had to remind myself of how a lost thinking US-Left playfully championed free speech:
I believe @facebook, @Twitter, @Google are now deploying effective new measures & standards for securing US democracy against a repeat of unwanted involvement by unacceptable outsiders.
What I just canât shake is fear that those outsiders are our own dissenting fellow citizens. I should point out that unlike many friends, Iâm *not* a free speech absolutist. Not a Trump voter. Not opposed to *some* discretion by the private sector as to whom it can deny service. But these are now utility like companies and something feels too...coordinated?...something.
2018
Free speech isnât a fascinating topic.
At least to me, itâs more like âair hungerâ: when youâre being choked, itâs always super important to you above everything else, even if simple breathing isnât really something upon which you ever expected to focus your intellectual energy.
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