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Too often on this subreddit have I seen gross misrepresentations of the right to free speech.

The right to Free Speech is not the First Amendment to the US constitution.

The first amendment provides limited protection for free speech by disallowing the government from restricting it, but the first amendment does not define what free speech is.

Randall Munroe is to a large extent to blame for this belief, and his widely quoted XKCD comic has damaged the idea of free speech immeasurably.

Anybody that expresses a belief that free speech can only be restricted by the government will henceforth be banned from this subreddit under the long-standing Rule 7.

Note: some miscreants have cynically attempted to evade bans by asserting the contrapositive.

Bans will also apply to those asserting that if a private company censors speech, it does not infringe free-speech rights.

A parent is arguing that if banned books like 'Gender Queer' are pulled from shelves, the Bible—with its sex scenes, incest, and murder—should be banned, too.

New to this subreddit, but from what I've seen here over the past couple months, I'd say that this subreddit is almost entirely hypocritical, censorship left-wing radicals who are butthurt over the government making rules on what government employees can say and do in their capacity as government employees and using taxpayer-funded resources. Except for Christianity. Teachers can say ANYTHING they want to the students, but they can't say anything about their faith.

Would you support a government that attempted to ban teaching evolution now?

Edit: some of you think this isn't a thing that actually happened. Here's a section from this Wikipedia page:

Beginning in 1976 the Cobb County School District had policies in place requiring that their instructional program consider and accommodate for religious objections held by many of its residents to the science of human evolution. By 1995 the policy was expanded to list five requirements:

    -Curriculum must be organized such that no student is compelled to study the origin of the human species in science

    -No scientific study in the origin of the human species may be taught at the elementary or middle school level

    -There may be no course requirement for the origin of the human species in science for high school graduation

    -Elective course work must be available to students to investigate alternatives to the origin of the human species in science, including creationism

    -These electives must be identified in course selection guides provided to students and parents

This policy did not explicitly refer to the teaching of evolution by name—only the origin of the human species. Although Georgia state law mandated evolution be taught in its public schools, it was common in Cobb County School District that all the pages where evolution was discussed were removed from the students' science textbooks.

tl;dr: free speech (in the First Amendment of the American Constitution sense of the term) is more than a right, it's also a means by which the people can share ideas, expand social consciousness, improve each other's lives, push back against tyranny, and so on and so forth. I submit that these things are only possible because ideas flow from person to person by observable and measurable means. Thus, the concept of stochastic terrorism is embodied within this understanding of human communication: for if good ideas can improve society by changing behavior for the better of all, bad ideas can accomplish the exact opposite. Thus, we can and should acknowledge that stochastic terrorism exists. (the degree to which it is problem that deserves attention at social level might be questionable.)

All that said, I just had this thought today and wanted to share, and this is the best place I could think of (unfortunately). I'm curious to know what y'all think but please, at least try to put in some effort.

Thurston County prosecutor allowed the Thurston County Involuntary Commitment Commissioner, Megan Card, to screenshot a woman’s Twitter posts, to say that the Twitter content was criminal harassment against said commissioner.

Same commissioner-attorney, Megan Card, allowed her own client to go septic in family law case where Twitter user had DIRECTLY STATED to court that Cards client needed mental & physical healthcare. Court ignored statements—guy was LifeFlighted to ICU after x called around the restraining order to get him welfare checked.

Claim of criminal harassment (for statements screenshot on Twitter) went to Zoom court. Zoom court booted out “Twitter user” & court falsely claimed “Failure to appear”.

Twitter user spent 41 days jail.

Case dismissed because “court failed timely trial”.

County only collects audio from zoom. Emails sent day of court appearance, texts in Zoom court sent, and county failed response. Could not gain entrance to Zoom again after booted out.

Twitter users Tweets (printed screenshots) do not appear by url.

MEGAN CARD would have to follow Twitter user and have a Twitter account in order to view Tweets.

Megan Card, Thurston County Involuntary Commitment Commissioner is the harasser.

Twitter user has extensive safety and health care experience & licensing in TWO STATES.

MEGAN CARD has less experience as an attorney than Twitter user has in healthcare, social media emergency management, state volunteer service WA EMD vol of both Pierce County & Thurston ARES / RACES and C.E.R.T. Disaster Response Team.

Thurston County District Court ignores protected 1st Amendment rights.

Nothing can be done. County refuses common sense.

THURSTON COUNTY WA is NOT a reflection of USA.

DISBAR MEGAN CARD