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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Yeah, no, you've missed the point.
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Actually, I think you've missed the point, or are just poorly making yours. The point of the cartoon was "hey, this is how free speech works in the real world, so when you're being an a-hole and claim 'free speech!' this is why there are still consequences."
Go off on the philosophical ideal that we should all strive towards all you want, but the way it's applied is not how you describe, because like most very academic ideas they only work in practice, not in theory. The ideal of free speech doesn't work because of humans. We do, however, have a real version of free speech that DOES work, albeit not the high standard of the ideal, and calling hat one "wrong" just seems ignorant or overly academic.
You can talk about the philosophical concept of free speech, or free speech as it's successfully applied in many liberal societies all over the world. One is influence by the other, but only one actually exists.