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John2290 said:
vivster said:

If they spread dangerous falsehoods and hate speech they should be silenced. And they actually are in democratic countries.

Hate speech is speech, lies are speech. You can't go drawing lines short of threats to physical health. I have found some of your posts hateful and very often falling into falsehoods like your take on Covid being just the flu before it reached pandemic levels and hateful against straight, white males but id never ask you to be silenced for it. Say what you like, make an Irish slur or whatever and as long as you don't threaten to physically attack me, you should be allowed to say it. It's that simple. I believe you even said once it's a good thing to cull the old and weak if i remember correctly... should you be silenced? If you go on about silencing others at least hold yourself to the same standard.

So... You're saying people should be allowed to verbally send death threats, because as long as they don't physically act on it, all's fine and that's, after all, only freedom of speech?