Reply #5: If your speech somehow infringes on some other right of a person.

[RandomThoughts]

Then there are other factors.

Free speech by itself is always guaranteed, but it is not in a vacuum, so other factors like what society considers acceptable is part of free speech rules. However most tyranny tries to change what is considered socially acceptable to favor some agenda.

Then there is also the ideas of credibility or false sources, is it free speech if it is intentionally dishonest? Does it serve any societal purpose at that point. What if someone faked another persons look and voice using CGI would that be free speech? What if someone lied, assuming that could be proved, would that be protected speech with any social good?

Someone posted about not bearing false witness. Is the open spreading of lies by a source defensible by free speech? Hence slander laws, where if proven, such things can be punished. (heh, in theory, although bought speech seems to change that a bit.)


However lets not play around and actually pretend that we have free speech. People have to buy air time on TV or Radio trying to make bought speech louder then a individual.

If we had free speech, would we allow paid opinions to advocate for something?