Jon Brown

The right to free speech is not absolute, nor does it obligate any individual, community, organization, or business to provide a platform for that speech.

As a basic human right it is more simply that the speaker shall not be legally precluded from speaking, nor punished for doing so. It is not and never been that their speech should be accommodated by others.

Here WP.org is no more obligated to provide a platform for this than your local church would be required to let anyone who wants to speak from the dais, nor for you to be required to allow nazis to give speeches in your front yard.

In fact Russia right now is providing a great example of where this crossed the line of violating a basic human right. Speaking out against the war on Ukraine was made illegal anywhere and everywhere in Russia and indeed people are indeed being arrested and punished just for talking about it. That is what it looks like when a government is denying a basic human right to freedom of speech vs what is happening with the plug-in where a private organization is simply saying “get off our lawn and spew your hate somewhere else”.

We need to accept that people will say things that outage us, but we never have to sit by and continue to listen to it we can and should tell them to go away.

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