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If freedom of speech is absolute, how come it's not applied for private spaces and for the Internet?

13.06.2025 04:52

If freedom of speech is absolute, how come it's not applied for private spaces and for the Internet?

Insider trading

Trade secrets

If you’re wondering why free speech doesn’t apply to the internet, it’s because you have no right to use other people’s stuff for free.

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Conspiracy

Terroristic threats

You have freedom of speech. If I loan you my computer, I can tell you not to use it for certain things, because it’s mine, you have no right to use it, and if I give you permission to use it I can tell you what you can and can’t do with it.

Your left and right brain hear language differently − a neuroscientist explains how - The Conversation

Threats of violence

Perjury

False advertising

Screen Time Nightmare: How ‘Digital Pacifiers’ Are Sucking The Sanity Out Of Children - Study Finds

Revenge porn

That’s what it is. You have no right to use other people’s stuff. If people let you use their stuff, they can tell you how you can use it, and they can tell you to stop using it any time they want.

No freedom is absolute.

Warming climate may flip the script on the amount of CO₂ released by trees, study finds - Phys.org

Insurrection

Revealing classified information

And much, much more.

Where did cosmic rays come from? Astrophysicists are closer to finding out - Phys.org

You have freedom to travel. If I loan you my car, I can tell you not to take it out of town, because it’s mine, you have no right to use it, and if I give you permission to use it I can tell you what you can and can’t do with it.

HIPAA violations

Fraud

Popular sugar substitute erythritol may impair brain blood vessel health, study finds - PsyPost

Freedom of speech does not apply to:

Child pornography