https://thinkingispower.com/the-problem-with-doing-your-own-research/

It's the conservative parties who keep violating free expression though.

E.g., an Ontario ag-gag law that prevented certain types of whistleblowling that had part of it struck down over free expression last month (edit: paywall free article).

Or Saskatchewan suspending free expression to pass their pronoun law.

Or with Internet legislation, the article mentions a Liberal bill, but the Conservatives are supporting another one that would require providing your identity to access websites with adult content and censoring websites that don't comply with it. That could in theory at least be used to censor a lot of Internet sites, even reddit.

Won't somebody think of the children?!

Most sane people agree that children should not have the same "rights" as everyone else, since they're too stupid to make decisions for themselves. Maybe not Canadians, though...

I'm a free speech absolutist, so I don't want anybody getting arrested, or facing any other legal trouble, based solely on speech. Excepting, of course shouting "fire" and causing a panic; or direct, specific, threats such as "I intend to assassinate [public figure] on [X date]." Anything less than that should be free and clear. The only fears that people should have for expressing an opinion, no matter how controversial, should be private and interpersonal.

I don't know...that quickly hits the issue we are having with Drag Queens.

They are fully within their rights to dress up and entertain...but they feel very threatened to do so by groups standing outside venues harassing them (and it isn't targeted at an individual but at a group they happen to opt into). Do they still have their freedom of expression if they are concerned for their physical well being if they show up at the event?

I think that only the person who actually assaulted somebody should get charged. By the time that we get to adulthood, we're expected to keep our tempers. I suspect that most people have a strong temptation to strike somebody on a daily basis, I certainly do, but we just don't do it. Assaulting somebody is a crime, if you went to trial and said "he called me an N-word, so I hit him", that's probably not going to convince a judge; it might convince a few jurors to commit Jury Nullification and hang the jury, but that's another matter.

Sorry, I did a bit of a double take reading this. Is it actually your intention that "most people" go through their lives with a strong temptation to indulge in physical violence on a daily basis? That's...remarkable.

Whenever I see a redditor's take I get an uncontrollable urge to

Manuel's family has told the BBC that his usual treatment, prescribed by British doctors, ran out in mid-April. He now has to take an alternative provided by the Qatari authorities.

@kaamrev

!kurwa

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No wonder no one takes sows seriously.

Joe Biden:

“Japan hates immigrants!”

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🇺🇦🇬🇧 British Foreign Secretary Cameron arrived in Kiev and began negotiations on a “100-year partnership with Ukraine”

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Should sign all documents in Hindu

What is America doing today to break out of such a doomed trajectory and into a more sustainable one?
The answer, sadly, is nothing, or rather, worse than nothing. On climate, for example, the most immediate need is to end the burning of fossil fuels as soon as possible — something not even being considered by Washington policymakers in a country that hit record oil production and record natural gas exports in 2023. 
Even a quarter-century from now, wind and solar energy sources together are forecast to account for only about one-third of U.S. electricity generation, with 56% still being supplied by gas, coal, and nuclear power.
The message is clear: curtailing ecological breakdown while improving humanity's quality of life requires banishing the material extravagance of the world's richest people, especially the growing crew of global billionaires. That would, however, have to be part of a much broader effort to rid affluent societies of the systemic overextraction and overproduction that threaten to be our global undoing.
Civilization itself is in danger of collapse. Growth — whether expressed as more dollars accumulated, more tons of material stuff produced, more carbon burned, or more wastes emitted — is coming to an end. 
The only question is: Will it happen as a collapse of society, or could the reversal of material growth be undertaken rationally?

@TouchFluffyTails discus

Personally, non existent.