It does in the US.
People seem to get confused though and expect that repugnant speech won't have any consequences.
People seem to get confused though and expect that repugnant speech won't have any consequences.
And for folks who scream "Free Speech doesn't mean Free of Consequence" and engage in harassment campaigns causing targets to lose jobs, homes, and everything else, I hope you're fine with the same thing happening to you when someone finds your views repugnant.
We're trying to push the societal ball forward, not revert to a state of digital Weimar-era street fighters engaging in mob justice.
This doesn't randomly happen to everyone.
Every possible alternative relies on whoever is in power exercising condescending 'parent knows best' authority. And the rest of us just have to hope the whims of whoever is in power happen to align with ours. That's a bad way to run anything from the get-go, doubly so when the next generation takes over and is expected to know what the hell they're doing.
Regardless, vigilantism isn't going to help and will only further worsen.
Care to give some examples?
I.e., that person said something incredibly repugnant and clearly meant it, I'm not going to have lunch with them anymore.
And so on.
I only ever see this as justification for vigilante justice. Is this what you're referring to?