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What about other rights that are in direct contradiction with freedom of speech?

Take, for example, privacy. In a free speech absolutist world, nobody can ever have privacy, for anything one says in confidence can be repeated for all to hear. Or I could completely doxx you, and you'd have no recourse.

Free speech absolutism is complete garbage




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