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> 'Absolute free speech' doesn't exist anywhere

You’re right, but I never claimed it did. Even the famously expansive US freedom of speech protection is not absolute.

> Would you be arrested if you told national secrets? What would happen if you told everyone at work (unfounded) that your boss abuses their children?

Yes you would be arrested, which is a freedom of speech issue, however banning this speech, despite harming freedom, is justified by other factors that are more important in these cases.



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