Dear all,

 

Just to provoke, It seems that the discussion on the free speech here is chained into whether there should be some limits on free speech or not, to speak freely!.  I do not think that those who advocate for freedom of speech are free of their will. Since economic, political and military power demarcates the limits of what is free and what is not, we are only speaking what is told us. Anything outside this demarcation is not taken into account and is ignored. It is a rhetoric of liberals (The word 'liberal' has semantically a problem to be solved) that by freedom of speech they make their argument magic. It is a precondition not to speak evil! in a liberal society as to be liberal. So, liberalism itself limits freedom of speech. Because no one cares about freedom of speech, as everbody has been freed long time ago. There is no one in prison in a liberal society (Austria is an exception). Because everyone is liberal whereas we see a lot of people in the prisones in  the partly liberal or authoritarian countries, because of the diversity that those countries have.

 

Mehmet