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No speech is suppressed where free speech is valued as a right, probably your case.

You would find that porn and personal insults are not legal in many parts of the world. The Chinese government has adopted a zero-tolerance policy toward so-called sexual content. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_China

To them it is offensive therefore illegal. Again, protecting offensive speech is the point behind free speech as a human right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

I don't know how those examples relate to my point. "protecting offensive speech is the point behind free speech as a human right."




You said:

> If speech is not offensive it wouldn't be suppressed

My point is that's not true, and it's trivial to find counterexamples. I listed a few in my comment.


Defamation is offensive, Spam is not suppressed speech(?).


You can defame a corporation, in which case there’s no one to take offense. As for spam: look up the long list of rules in the CAN-SPAM act, for example.




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