Katie Hopkins suspended from Twitter

Can’t stand people that try and dictate what the likes of ‘twitter/Facebook etc should be doing - they’re social media sites and not compulsory and there’s hundreds of other platforms to spout shite - if Twitter or Facebook want to ban someone because they’re a twat then so they should, it’s their website and they can do as they please.
 
Ric said:
“Freedom of speech” is a bit of a misnomer that often gets thrown about, usually by the right. The idea that you can literally say whatever you like, wherever you like is patently untrue, particularly in the modern age. As Ms Hopkins has discovered.
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Spot on. There is not a single freedom or right that doesn't come with some restriction, condition or caveat, and for a good and simple reason; an absolute right/freedom inevitably infringes upon the rights and freedoms of someone else. This was properly understood and sorted out over 300 years ago by Social Contract theorists.

For example, an absolute freedom to go around hitting people would infringe upon other people's right to be free from physical harm. That's why we have laws against it. An absolute right to take ownership of anything we want would infringe upon other people's right to own things. That's why we have property laws to govern such rights.

The same goes for speech; if we had an absolute freedom/right to say whatever we wanted then we would risk causing harm to others in some way (directly or indirectly). And I'm not talking about criticising beliefs or opinions here; that's fair game. The rule is simple - no 'ad hominem'. Play the ball and not the man, basically, and don't use speech to deliberately inflict physical or mental harm. I suspect that Hopkins is probably smart enough to grasp that concept, but decides to ignore it anyway for money/retweets.
 
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