• TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world
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    The difference is that you have the right get up on the soap box, but you are not guaranteed an audience once you get there. The Freedom of speech only says that you can’t be denied your own life for what you say, not that you are entitled to people to agree with you.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      34 minutes ago

      you are not guaranteed an audience once you get there

      If the police can arrest someone for being in the audience, your freedom of speech is functionally repressed