@SrRochardBunson @volkris @thejenniwren Right! If speech were in fact free without limits, there would be no defamation, slander, libel, incitement & many other laws - there would be open anarchy, no civility, no public order & more havoc.
And btw, the world of today is VERY different from the world of 1776 & it requires & embodies different laws, norms, rule & values than many of those valid 247 years ago.
@ArenaCops @SrRochardBunson @thejenniwren
Dogs and cats living together!
I think you have an over estimated opinion as to the power of legal authority (and authoritarianism in general) to make people behave well.
But you also misunderstand a lot of the laws you cite.
For example, you can say anything you want even if you are also held responsible for misleading audiences. That's not a law against speech; it's a likely civil path to recover damages caused by that speech.
But mainly we don't need to promote large amounts of political power out of fear of what might happen should the world not be tightly controlled.
There are dangers down that road.
