"She's welcome to her own opinion but she should not be free to spread hate. "


Free speech as long as YOU agree with it?

Defamation and slander are offences defined in law. "Spreading hate" could be used to describe a lot of what is presented here on Mudcat, in political discussions. I would no more limit what she can say ( though I do find it often crude and beyond what I would LIKE to hear said) than I would limit any other speech.


"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought-not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate."

-Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in United States v. Schwimmer (1929)