If freedom of speech is absolute, how come it's not applied for private spaces and for the Internet?

Last Updated: 02.07.2025 06:36

If freedom of speech is absolute, how come it's not applied for private spaces and for the Internet?

HIPAA violations

That’s what it is. You have no right to use other people’s stuff. If people let you use their stuff, they can tell you how you can use it, and they can tell you to stop using it any time they want.

Conspiracy

Why was Nietzsche against essentialism?

Insurrection

Threats of violence

Revenge porn

Dolorem suscipit perferendis ea aut quo et ea.

You have freedom of speech. If I loan you my computer, I can tell you not to use it for certain things, because it’s mine, you have no right to use it, and if I give you permission to use it I can tell you what you can and can’t do with it.

No freedom is absolute.

Terroristic threats

Brad Pitt and Ines de Ramon have PDA-packed date night at ‘F1’ premiere in NYC - Page Six

Child pornography

False advertising

Freedom of speech does not apply to:

The nine-armed octopus and the oddities of the cephalopod nervous system - Ars Technica

And much, much more.

Insider trading

Trade secrets

Gene mutation found in the bacterium behind the Black Death helped plague conquer the world, scientists say - CNN

Revealing classified information

Fraud

You have freedom to travel. If I loan you my car, I can tell you not to take it out of town, because it’s mine, you have no right to use it, and if I give you permission to use it I can tell you what you can and can’t do with it.

To Break a Bad Habit and Create a New One, Neuroscience Says Just Make One Simple Change - Inc.com

Perjury

If you’re wondering why free speech doesn’t apply to the internet, it’s because you have no right to use other people’s stuff for free.