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Would you consider this a violation of your freedom of speech? - Hollywood Jono - 02-16-2013 10:22 PM
You are an adult in your early-mid 30’s of sound mind and body. You decide to express your opinion about something on a social media site… however someone else doesn’t care for what you have to say so they call one or both of your parents and complain. You then get an earful from your parents who insist that you take the comment down even though they aren’t on social media sites themselves and have no idea what the comment was really about. Would you consider this a violation of your freedom of speech and therefore be angry/annoyed with the person who called your parents and complained as opposed to taking the issue up with you?
- Alan - 02-16-2013 10:30 PM
I am in my mid 30's and someone is going to "call my parents" to complain about something? If someone actually did that, they wouldn't be worth my time.
- Rance - 02-16-2013 10:30 PM
if your parents were offended by the comment, that says something, doesn't it?
no it is not a violation of your freedom of speech - just because someone doesn't like what you have to say, doesn't make it a violation and neither is requesting you to remove the comment a violation of your freedoms.
- Mutt - 02-16-2013 10:30 PM
Nope. No violation of Freedom of Speech.
Freedom of Speech is about the GOVERNMENT denying you the right to express your beliefs and opinions, not your parents denying it.
- knotter - 02-16-2013 10:30 PM
As you are free to express yourself any which way you want, even if it makes you look like a real dork, at the same time, somebody else has the same right to complain about it, especially to your parents.
And of course your parents also have the freedom to express their views on your posts to anyone who would listen to them.
Isn't freedom of expression wonderful?
PS: Don't forget to wrap yourself in the star spangled banner ...
- wizjp - 02-16-2013 10:30 PM
uh...you still had free speech. The government does not care what you did. If you are too much of a coward to stand up to your parents at 30 for what you believed strongly enough (or were dumb enough to put on a public website to draw attention to yourself) you vacated the right to free speech; it was not violated.
- Jens - 02-16-2013 10:30 PM
No violation of free speech.
The government did not mess with your expression of your opinion. That's all what the right to free speech is about. Free speech does not mean that no-one may be angry at you about voicing a certain perhaps unpopular opinion.
If a guest at your house insults your wife, then you kick him out of the house, don't you? He then can't claim a violation of freedom of speech either - the government didn't mess with it, but he did not have a right to insult your wife in your house without consequences such as being shown the door.