Posted May 21, 2016
catpower1980: ..........cough cough..... just had the example with a certain subreddit which got "quarantined" recently....... so we're back to square one :o)
Zabohad: Just to make things clear, "freedom of speech" is right to not being persecuted by the government just for expressing one's opinion, and nothing more. The way you express the opinion can be regulated and you are still limited by the rights of the others. Also, the rest of the world isn't obliged to provide you the means to express your opinion, it's up to you. Absolute freedom (of speech or anything else) is the same thing as absolute equality or absolute safety: model concept that cannot be achieved in any real society for principal reasons. Trying too hard to achieve it is actually counterproductive.
You can't just take freedom of speech the constitutional right and and say non governmental bodies cannot suppress it when its not constitutional freedom of speech that is being suppressed. When government doesn't allow the working of laws related to freedom of speech, its government-backed / sponsored censorship. Otherwise, it is non governmental censorship.