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Free speech is only a right as far as the constitution guarantees (which is limited). Personally I’d like US culture to fully embrace the value of free speech, but support for it generally depends on if your favorite political party is in power.

If we truly valued free speech we would not have all this debate over censorship.

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The Bill of Rights is a list of God given rights the government CANNOT take away from you, not something they give you.

In self rule, The goverment is us. We can take away any part of the bill of rights that we see fit, with a new amendment

Fascinating how God did not appear to intervene in the preceding 100 centuries of government taking away exactly those rights.

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