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

12.06.2025 08:30

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

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.

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.

Why do women consider 80% of men as unattractive?

Trade secrets

Revenge porn

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.

If my boyfriend watches porn, does it mean he doesn’t think I’m good enough? If I am good enough, why does he still watch? Am I not beautiful enough?

And much, much more.

Child pornography

False advertising

Mets’ need their all-time lost opportunity to be a Dodgers aberration - New York Post

Perjury

Conspiracy

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.

Federal judge approves $2.8B settlement, paving way for US colleges to pay athletes millions - ABC News

No freedom is absolute.

Insurrection

HIPAA violations

Why can't the ISS take a picture of Earth and prove to the Flat Earth Society that Earth is not really flat?

Threats of violence

Revealing classified information

Freedom of speech does not apply to:

Can you name an example of bad parenting?

Insider trading

Fraud