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Comment by bobartig at 05/10/2018 at 22:43 UTC
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Free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences. In fact, the founders felt quite the opposite. The point of free speech is so that ideas are challenged openly and vigorously, and that popular ideas endure, and unpopular ideas are discarded.