Sep 30, 2025
Thinking of a quote by a con on free speech/expression
(Mew, Time for another statecraft. One off the top of my head. I remember this quote, it was placed within the right remix within the right time, I had to dig it out and think of such matters. )
"Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection."
Neal Boortz
Neal Boortz (1998). “The Terrible Truth About Liberals”, p.49, Taylor Trade Publishing
(Urgh, look at the book title. Haven't read it, going off when some social democrat posted it.) Speaking of rights they've never been natural, guess there's a reason for it.
Welp, this was quoted by a commentator back in the 2010's and then it became dismantled within drama within free expression and free speech. The system of our legal system. Free-speech does not cover hate speech, I think it's (I can't cite it) John Rawls of Conflicting ideologies coexisting in a space.
Out of context, It serves its purpose, and I agree. I don't like mob manipulation and twitter statecraft where everything his drama conflict central over things I can't count.
How memory serves differs. We'll go out of a western ethnocentrism now.
To not establish a hierarchy, my interpretation is that victims of preponderance and mob rule cannot be lead to ways of justice, with that informality and not due process that can be taken.