Freedom of speech is under attack and it could get worse

[The Fury]

padib said:

The Fury said:

Irony is that laughing at ideas is freedom of speech. Your are free to view an idea someone has voiced with ridicule if you believe it to be ridiculous.

In answer to your other questions, Education. It's all about education. I know when to shut up, when to speak up and I know what is and isn't offensive, is and isn't right based on my upbringing and education.

Did you see me censor him? It's not ironic I knew what I was doing.

Education is based on the sharing of ideas. If you shut people up, there are no ideas shared.

It's simple really.

No I didn't see you censor him, all his post is the same in your quote. :?

The shutting up isn't down to a wide circulation, it's down to an individual, that 1 persons freedom of choice to either talk or not. If someone does not want to speak about a certain subject they don't have to but all subjects can and maybe should be talked about as a whole population. Closing Freedom of Speech on the whole population is stoping that discussion of all subjects and in turn (as you say) no ideas are shared.

However, Education isn't about ideas, it's about knowledge and understanding, facts. An idea is just that, an idea, it is open to not only be questioned or defended but changed. 

... honestly, I'm not sure where I am taking this. Education is the route to understanding of other people's ideas. And it's Education that allows us to speak up, question and freely speak in anyway we want. Yet, whatever your view, whatever free speech you want to do, do not take that freedom and turn it into physical violence in any medium. If violence is a reply to an idea then humanity is lost. (in a sense agreeing that more talk is better than no talk and violence.)

Also, don't listen to idiots on youtube. They are usually a step away from wearing a tin-foil hat.