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I have just changed the ToC for #QOTO.. We replaced the phrase "free speech" With the more appropriate principle of "Academic Freedom". We also changed some subtle wording to be more explicit.
In practice our rules have not changed in any meaningful way. I may make some more tweaks soon.
All too often, "Free Speech" = "Freedom to yell fire in a theater," which is explicitly forbidden within the US despite the knuckleheads that don't seem to grasp the difference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exceptions
"Fighting Words" & "False Statements of Fact" among "forbidden free speech."
@Romaq yea, we never meant free speech tto mean any speech, but people seem to insist thats what we mean... I feel academic freedom might help convey a more accurate principle.
@icedquinn @freemo I understand that, and regret or not, there are those insisting "freedom of speech" is "license to destroy lives with lies for money." Whichever way this thing boils over, and I'm sure it will, the only one who wins is the most brutal thug left standing, and that ain't me.
