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VGPolyglot said:
Lawlight said:

Your idea of freedom of speech is being able to express yourself without the government taking action against you. Actual freedom of speech is being able to express your opinions without government or society taking actions against you. If you say water is wet and an organisation takes measures to affect your livelihood, then you don't have freedom of speech.

So, if a Nazi promotes black genocide, and people make a counter-protest, that would be considered as a restriction fo freedom of speech to you, because they're taking actions against him? But then wouldn't it be restricting freedom of speech by not allowing people to freely speak against certains types of speech?

There is a difference between encouraging harm to others vs., for example, making a joke like Colin Moriarty did. You know something is wrong when someone gets fired for making a joke on Twitter. That's not freedom of speech. Another example is Canada which passed a law restricting criticising of Islam. Which reminds me of this:

https://i.redd.it/afiwot3c4jny.jpg