Here is what you would get with that:
The following changes will affect all forms of expression and media, including speech, books, music, films, and other arts, the press, radio, television, and the Internet, but not at all being limited to these mediums of expression, these changes will only concern the censorship policies of the government and public forums (in offline and online spaces), and will not impose any restrictions or obligations upon private organizations, groups, institutions, or individuals.
It shall no longer be a crime to share information that compromises national security, including classified or top secret information (someone like Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, or James O'Keefe and their sources would be protected in all their journalistic activities, even the ones of the most controversy).
There shall be no laws regarding obscenity, child pornography, or hate speech (speaking on behalf of anyone who had been on those "anything goes" chat sites on the deep web, you can expect to a lot of all three, at least initially, until the legality of it makes it lose most of it's appeal, even the very worst of CP will lose it's appeal, and you can only say "nigger" so many times until it stops being fun).
There shall be no to laws to protect children or other vulnerable groups from accessing material that was formerly restricted to them by law (speaking from personal experience, even being prohibited by law from accessing that material didn't stop me as a kid, I could always figure out my parent's passwords and find a way into seeing what I was curious about, when I was as young as 11 or 12).
There shall be no laws to promote or restrict the expression or criticism of political or religious views (meaning that so long as no other laws are broken by them, all religious practice is protected, and blasphemy/heresy/apostasy is given similar protection, all political activities and ideologies are protected so long as no other laws are broken, and the political equivalent of blasphemy, heresy, and apostasy, such as the denial of the holocaust or criticism of the current government and it's leaders, is a similarly protected form of expression, and there would be no legal course for prosecuting subversive media as existed under the Hayes' code of decency in the media and the particular restrictions placed on media by the chinese communist party).
There shall be no laws to prevent or punish slander, libel, or defamation (meaning that all defamatory claims are to be settled without resorting to the court system, there would be no court case of the hulkster taking money from those gawker jabronies, and a lot of the project veritas cases would not have gone to court).
There would be no laws restricting public expression in any way, so long as no other laws are broken by them, this would not only apply to the expression of groups, such as protests, rallies, and demonstrations, but also to individual acts of expression, such as public nudity, as there would also be no decency laws to restrict those who wish to go out in public while nude, even public acts of masturbation or sexual activity may be protected (though the element of social and cultural pressures means that a lot of people may not engage in these activities purely out of the shame and humiliation associated with doing so).
There would be no protection of intellectual property, as trademarks, copyrights, patents, industrial design permits, and trade secrets all necessitate the restriction of expression in some capacity, it means that the ownership of non-physical and abstract forms of property would not be able to be recognized, the ability for brands, artists, inventors, industries, and businesses to profit off of their exclusive right to their novel ideas would be limited (however, this may have an upside, items prices becomes more representative of their actual value due to the devaluation of their association to some form of branding, there will be less artists who create for profit, and more for expression's sake, and there would be more room for them to undermine the narratives of each other due to "official canon" getting shredded, severely cutting down on the level of propaganda in our media, etc.).
There would be no laws against issuing threats, using intimidating speech (including "fighting words"), committing blackmail, or engaging in speech that incites criminal activities, only the use of coercion (such as forcing someone to do something or else their lives, property, the lives of others, or the property of others may be threatened) may be prosecuted.
Basically, a world that takes freedom of speech to it's absolute extreme interpretation would be very different from the world of today.
Here is what you would get with that:
- The following changes will affect all forms of expression and media, including speech, books, music, films, and other arts, the press, radio, television, and the Internet, but not at all being limited to these mediums of expression, these changes will only concern the censorship policies of the government and public forums (in offline and online spaces), and will not impose any restrictions or obligations upon private organizations, groups, institutions, or individuals.
- It shall no longer be a crime to share information that compromises national security, including classified or top secret information (someone like Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, or James O'Keefe and their sources would be protected in all their journalistic activities, even the ones of the most controversy).
- There shall be no laws regarding obscenity, child pornography, or hate speech (speaking on behalf of anyone who had been on those "anything goes" chat sites on the deep web, you can expect to a lot of all three, at least initially, until the legality of it makes it lose most of it's appeal, even the very worst of CP will lose it's appeal, and you can only say "nigger" so many times until it stops being fun).
- There shall be no to laws to protect children or other vulnerable groups from accessing material that was formerly restricted to them by law (speaking from personal experience, even being prohibited by law from accessing that material didn't stop me as a kid, I could always figure out my parent's passwords and find a way into seeing what I was curious about, when I was as young as 11 or 12).
- There shall be no laws to promote or restrict the expression or criticism of political or religious views (meaning that so long as no other laws are broken by them, all religious practice is protected, and blasphemy/heresy/apostasy is given similar protection, all political activities and ideologies are protected so long as no other laws are broken, and the political equivalent of blasphemy, heresy, and apostasy, such as the denial of the holocaust or criticism of the current government and it's leaders, is a similarly protected form of expression, and there would be no legal course for prosecuting subversive media as existed under the Hayes' code of decency in the media and the particular restrictions placed on media by the chinese communist party).
- There shall be no laws to prevent or punish slander, libel, or defamation (meaning that all defamatory claims are to be settled without resorting to the court system, there would be no court case of the hulkster taking money from those gawker jabronies, and a lot of the project veritas cases would not have gone to court).
- There would be no laws restricting public expression in any way, so long as no other laws are broken by them, this would not only apply to the expression of groups, such as protests, rallies, and demonstrations, but also to individual acts of expression, such as public nudity, as there would also be no decency laws to restrict those who wish to go out in public while nude, even public acts of masturbation or sexual activity may be protected (though the element of social and cultural pressures means that a lot of people may not engage in these activities purely out of the shame and humiliation associated with doing so).
- There would be no protection of intellectual property, as trademarks, copyrights, patents, industrial design permits, and trade secrets all necessitate the restriction of expression in some capacity, it means that the ownership of non-physical and abstract forms of property would not be able to be recognized, the ability for brands, artists, inventors, industries, and businesses to profit off of their exclusive right to their novel ideas would be limited (however, this may have an upside, items prices becomes more representative of their actual value due to the devaluation of their association to some form of branding, there will be less artists who create for profit, and more for expression's sake, and there would be more room for them to undermine the narratives of each other due to "official canon" getting shredded, severely cutting down on the level of propaganda in our media, etc.).
- There would be no laws against issuing threats, using intimidating speech (including "fighting words"), committing blackmail, or engaging in speech that incites criminal activities, only the use of coercion (such as forcing someone to do something or else their lives, property, the lives of others, or the property of others may be threatened) may be prosecuted.
Basically, a world that takes freedom of speech to it's absolute extreme interpretation would be very different from the world of today.
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