It goes to show that there are a lot of people who really do 'get it' when it comes to free speech.
Free speech is about having to hear-not agree-with the people whose ideas you find insulting, repugnant and offensive.
Any kind of artificial "shelter" from free speech is an intrusion on personal freedom.
Where free speech ventures into actual threats-the law takes over.
Where free speech creeps toward libel or slander, there are provisions in the law.
The entire "free speech" debate has evolved into a crusade to have difference of opinions criminalized in supposedly civilized nations.
Some of us know where those enlightened paths led us throughout history.
It simply should not be impossible to have a political, or religious disagreement in a "civilized" Western country without fear of political persecution and financial ruin.
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