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Freedom of speech… until you try to use it.
Holy shit, this is universally up voted? Are the people here really this uninformed when it comes to free speech? Not one person has challenged you on this BS?
Free speech is something that protects you from the government. This is clearly some private event that has the right to allow or disallow whatever they want on their property. This is like if I was invited into your house, I called your wife a cunt, you asked me to leave, and then I said the ridiculously stupid "you're violating my freedom of speech!"
Is the Lemmy hive mind even more dumb than reddits?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill
https://www.aclu.org/documents/speech-campus
First sentence on the Wiki and on the ACLU page. Go back to Reddit if you're going to be ignorant and insult people.
While you are free to say what you want, you don’t have the freedom from consequences of what you say, except from being critical of the government. I think that’s the point he was trying to make, but he wasn’t very articulate about it.
But there still are limited restriction, for example you can’t talk about (or even look at) any classified information you come across. And whistle blowing has become all but illegal.