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America is a Capitalist Oligarchy (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Freedom of speech… until you try to use it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The most protected form of speech is money. Apparently. Which is really weird since money isn't, you know, speech, at all. But what do I know, I'm broke as shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The more money you have the more innocent you are. Billionaires are basically the most innocent people in society, while the poor are most guilty.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit, this is universally up voted? Are the people here really this uninformed when it comes to free speech? Not one person has challenged you on this BS?

Free speech is something that protects you from the government. This is clearly some private event that has the right to allow or disallow whatever they want on their property. This is like if I was invited into your house, I called your wife a cunt, you asked me to leave, and then I said the ridiculously stupid "you're violating my freedom of speech!"

Is the Lemmy hive mind even more dumb than reddits?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill

The First Amendment to the Constitution protects speech no matter how offensive its content. Restrictions on speech by public colleges and universities amount to government censorship, in violation of the Constitution.

https://www.aclu.org/documents/speech-campus

First sentence on the Wiki and on the ACLU page. Go back to Reddit if you're going to be ignorant and insult people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

While you are free to say what you want, you don’t have the freedom from consequences of what you say, except from being critical of the government. I think that’s the point he was trying to make, but he wasn’t very articulate about it.

But there still are limited restriction, for example you can’t talk about (or even look at) any classified information you come across. And whistle blowing has become all but illegal.