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originally posted by: DAVID64
a reply to: chr0naut
It's fine that other countries have their own laws, but they are trying to enforce those laws on people in other countries. The UK says it will come after Americans or anyone else for breaking their laws.
What if you did or said something that was perfectly legal in New Zealand, but the US said " We don't like that and we're coming to arrest you".
When Twitter was owned and operated by Liberals and censored Conservatives, everything was fine. Now that Musk owns it and they no longer have control of the narrative, it's suddenly a threat to Democracy.
Seems like pretty much anything that goes against their agenda is a threat to Democracy.
originally posted by: 5thHead
originally posted by: chr0naut
other countries do not consider lies and fraud to be classified as free speech, as is done in the USA.
Of course they do. That's how their leaders got in and remain in power.
It's the truth that they want censored.
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: worldstarcountry
So, you suggest that countries who don't have the same laws, should be boycotted by the media companies?
Wouldn't that be limiting the freedom of expression of those in other countries?
Also, other countries do not consider lies and fraud to be classified as free speech, as is done in the USA.
originally posted by: BigDuckEnergy
The problem with not allowing "lies and fraud" to be "free speech" is many, but I don't even think you know what you are saying. If by lying you mean slander or libel, those are also illegal in the US. If by fraud, you mean the legal definition, that is an exact action that sometimes has speech involved.
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: worldstarcountry
So, you suggest that countries who don't have the same laws, should be boycotted by the media companies?
Wouldn't that be limiting the freedom of expression of those in other countries?
Also, other countries do not consider lies and fraud to be classified as free speech, as is done in the USA.
Now by "lies and fraud", you mean posting an opinion you don't like, I assume, which yes, people are allowed to have opinions you don't like. The amount of fascists on this forum is alarming.
As to banned books specifically in Florida, I went to school to be a Lit teacher and there are tons of books in Florida that are what we would call "softbanned" ie don't teach them unless you have enough clout at your school that it wouldn't get you fired. Anything by Ayn Rand was on there, Brave New World, 1984, both Ender and Bean's books (basically any od Card's works), Steinbeck, Siddhartha, Little Big Man, and the list goes on and on and on. It scares me that students don't learn these novels as they are timeless. I have a personal grudge as Atlas Shrugged is one of my favorites and the woman who taught me that book was my mentor who got me into wanting to teach lit in the first place.