The death of online free speech

So I keep getting banned from all forums and websites just for using words that don't please power-hungry moderators. Is free speech dying online?

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Yes

There is no expectation of completely free speech on someone else's forum. Just as you would be asked to leave (or forcefully removed from) someone's home for saying something that's completely legal to say, it's the same way on a privately moderated forum.

In Germany they first came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.

You aren't and never were guaranteed free speech on the internet in the first place.

Is "they" referring to the muzzies?

But a few years ago you could expect to have a rational conversation to solve any conflict instead of just getting banned without the chance to discuss the problematic posts.

Technically, if it's their forum, it is just as much exerting their right of free speech to remove a comment as it to make one

I couldn't agree more. The censorship of cracked.com's comments pages is on par with the Holocaust

Can you not expect to deal with problems rationally anymore? Maybe you've just had some bad experiences lately with moderators, or maybe this is how its always been and you've had some really good one off experiences with moderators in the past.

Just be civil

take it from a guy whose been getting perma banned from forums for over 10 years. Its nothing new and your freedom of speech doesn't apply. You go there knowing full well that you have to behave a certain way. If you can't understand this then you have autism. Even fucking Sup Forums has rules.

Kekd

if you start your own website you can say whatever you want

if you go onto other people's websites and start yelling about niggers or whatever you were doing, ofc you will get banned. that's like going into someone's house and smearing the walls with your shit

Just create your own forum or site and say whatever you please. That is free speech

It is now.

Nigger went full retarded on stack overflow and I told him to go fuck himself for making such a stupid question, then I got banned... I know how you feel

What holocaust?

Child pornography isn't free speech. This is free speech: mods are all faggots, and I would first the chink moot's mother if she didn't die from Aids, 1488

people confuse free speech with the idea that anything can be said without repercussion.
What freedom of speech amounts to is simply the freedom to say anything that is political in a court of law, or a public place, that is lawful, and that is not libelous or slanderous. For example it would be an infringement of free speech if the police arrested everyone who said they believe that the tax rate should be zero percent. If you use a forum the rules of free speech do not apply since those are private forums. The laws of free speech only apply in public places

And Sup Forums.

Free speech means I can say "Obama is an asshole who needs to be taken out of power." and not have a kill squad visit my house.

Free speech is not going on a private website, payed for by a private citizen/company/entity, which I am not forced to visit, and shit talk them.

They can do whatever they want. Free speech just means the Government can't.

Why don't people understand this?

Let's be real
1 mods don't have time for your shit and are not under any contract to give you a 'fair chance'
2 there is no protected 'free speech' on the internet, you only get to talk relatively freely because otherwise nobody would use the net
3 you were acting like you were on Sup Forums and expected the Sup Forums treatment, you fucked up

Look user, calling Jesus a nigger isn't gonna get you any favours anywhere.

You do have free speech, it's just that there are social ramifications for the things that you say.

For example, I used to have this friend in high school. One night, a bunch of us are at a party, and this friend gets drunk, and describes in lurid detail to a girl present how he'd like to rape her.

We stopped inviting him to parties.

He does have the right to say these things (though legally he might technically not, since it could have been construed as an actionable thread, but that would be a restriction on free speech so we'll pretend that's not the case), but after doing so, we're also free to say "fuck off" when he tried to hang out with us.

tl;dr: if you don't like that forums kick you for saying shit nobody wants to hear, go find someplace else where people want to hear that shit and stop pretending you have some sort of legitimate grievance.

You have the right to say what you want.
You have no right to use a particular website.

even Sup Forums got hit pretty hard when former kike overlord and grand retard moot decided to pursue his shitty failed canv.as project and recruited a bunch of sjw mods to clean up Sup Forums to make it more appealing to investors which just resulted in them banning for the most minute bullshit.

If you don't read the rules that say "don't be a racist" and then you call someone a fucking nigger you should expect to be banned, retard.

Just wanted to remind you guys that hate speech is not free speech.

Free speech never existed online. You're interacting with someone else's server as a client. They don't have to tolerate you spewing nonsense onto their machine(s).
You are however, free to post all the nonsensical shit you want on your own website, on your own server.

Not at all. It's just websites online don't belong to you, they are controlled by people who pay to maintain them. Because of that they are free to do with their websites as they please. This includes restricting freedom of speech.

If you don't like this then build your own website and be as much of a racist, retard, muslim or whatever as much as you like. As long as you don't violate your country's laws then you'll be okay.

Free speech is a stupid american thing. All rational people knows free speech should be allowed only to responsible people. Not fag bullies like yourself.

Fuck you nigger. Also it is, this is the reason the KKK, feminists, and fags are allowed to go pracing on the street saying things that upset you.

>all these bad things exist because of this other thing
>but this other thing is good, trust me

>only people I like can have freedom of speech
drink bleach

No power tripping asshole mods has been a meme since the dawn of the internet.

It's Sup Forums that's the exception with how much it allows and why I can't ever go back to more moderated forums with censorship, usernames, reputation and all that.

>>all these bad things exist because of this other thing
I never said that.

>>but this other thing is good, trust me
What are you onto you mouthbreather?

Hate speech is NOT free speech. Free speech encourage debate, whereas hate speech incites violence. You have to be retarded not to see the distinction.

It depends on what country you live in.

Yurofaggots and britbongs buy into the "hate speech" bullshit but outside of calling every black person you run into a nigger, it doesn't really apply in the US.

"hate speech" is a european concept, those guys don't have free speech guaranteed by constitution either lmao

>Hate speech is NOT free speech. Free speech encourage debate, whereas hate speech incites violence. You have to be retarded not to see the distinction.
Go fuck yourself you tranny swine. You probably could too. Maybe you'll even enjoy it... On second thought maybe don't fuck yourself?

latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-colleges-hate-speech-1st-amendment-20151030-story.html

This.

Free speech isn't some "I can say anything I want" but rather it's the legal ability to question and facilitate discussion on sensitive topics without repercussion.

Calling a cop a "pig" in public isn't free speech, that's being a dick. Questioning his actions or application of the law in public, however, is free speech.
Or, you know, same for any scenario.

Pic attached: just now before posting, apparently "Lolita" is a store front.

All speech is free speech, hatred or otherwise.

>falling for the 300 year old piece of paper meme

Literally kill yourself immediately.

Good job protecting free speech.

Jew detected. Hitler should have finished you all off. You're nothing but a disease on this world.

fuck off retard

lolwut, aren't you the jew shit that wants "hate speech" to be criminalized?

We can all see through you, just admit that you are against freedom of speech.

letting hate speech allowed is good. It lets people see others for who they are. If people's opinions are proprietary you might never know that they are an asshole.

>just admit that you are against freedom of speech.

SJW's have actually been admitting this for quite a long time now

they even have a meme about it, "freeze peach"

it's really quite bizarre and i wonder how many feminist studies classes you'd have to take before you start believing the same shit

Your right to free speech protects you from the government imposing rules on what you can and cannot say. forum administrators, despite what they think, are not the government. This means it's your own fucking stupid fault for getting banned from leet-minecraft-hax.net when you call someone a nigger. Don't act like that is at all similar to being oppressed by the state when you protest about corruption, or being arrested for promoting equal rights for women.

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>Sup Forums turned into marketing shithole
>forums are dead
>posting anywhere gets you banned
What a great world we are living in

>Calling a cop a "pig" in public isn't free speech, that's being a dick.
So if something offends someone, then its not free speech and can/should be banned?

not being able to say things as you want in the way you want incites violence also.

People should be teach to defend their selfs or not take as personal some idiot comment that is hurtful, just accept his freedom and speak your mind/walk away, just don't feed the troll

>so funny when reCapcha ask for store front and show some religious building

Until I cry to your hosting provider, registrar, etc.

>Hate speech is NOT free speech.
If you're an American, please get the fuck out of the country.

But hurting my fee-fees infringes my rights!

Create new accounts and go on a spam rampage like all stupid niggers do. Whining like a little bitch won't help anyone.

I want California liberals to be gassed.

In Germany they first came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then everything was fixed so they stop pursuing people.

...

>Being a Protestant

Please refrain from posting on Sup Forums henceforth because you have just now made me violent.