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Freedom of Speech - Is it too big a price to pay?

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Run away and play with your blocks, Jayb.

You're the guy who spouts whatever you wish to invent - and when repeatedly asked to provide evidence of your fiction, runs off at high speed.

You still haven't provided the links I asked for.

Whoops!...too late....he's gone.
Posted by Poirot, Sunday, 18 January 2015 3:00:35 PM
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It seems to me that there is a question left unanswered by the 750-odd posts on this thread, yet that question seems to be seminal.

What are the implications of free speech?
Posted by Craig Minns, Sunday, 18 January 2015 4:22:45 PM
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poirot: Run away and play with your blocks, Jayb.
You still haven't provided the links I asked for.

It's nice in the Box, Air Conditioned, Library, PC, TV, Workshop, Big Reel to Reel & Blocks. You should be so lucky.

& I told you, every other discussion we have ever had on the bad guys (Moslems) & the good guys (the rest of us). All of 'em.
Posted by Jayb, Sunday, 18 January 2015 4:47:45 PM
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Jayb,

Like I said, if there are so many, it shouldn't be hard to produce some.

You should stop your mendacious accusations or stump up with the evidence.

(Of course, there is NO evidence - so you can't - which also explains why you haven't)
Posted by Poirot, Sunday, 18 January 2015 5:02:36 PM
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Craig,

In Australia, this might go some way to answering your question:

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AJHR/1997/24.html#Heading4

Joe
Posted by Loudmouth, Sunday, 18 January 2015 5:35:01 PM
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Loudmouth: The only time where free speech has been promoted is where the speaker is attacking an unpopular cause;[58] the times where there has been a resounding rejection of the idea of free speech have been where the speaker has promoted an unpopular cause.[59]

[58] More often than not the free speech cases have protected attacks on the industrial system or on politicians. The only exception to this could be ACTV, but there again Labor Party moves to promote fairness in the electoral process were not popular with any group which would be advantaged by unfairness. This is not to say that we support the legislation which was struck down, but rather that the attempted legislation was a little too radical, and was seen as an attack on established means of electioneering.

[59] Communists and animal liberationists have suffered in this regard.

Says it all, doesn't it. & the last sentence in 58 speaks for itself, doesn't it.
Posted by Jayb, Sunday, 18 January 2015 5:49:37 PM
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