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[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but back in my day DC wasn't afraid to put Nazis in their place

[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Freedom of speech is dead in the USA

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The first amendment protects citizen speech from the government. It does not protect speech from consequences or actions by private individuals or companies. So, as much as I hate it, DC did not impede the author's freedom of speech and they were full within their rights to fire the author and cancel the comic. It is also my right to make it a point to not buy DC comics and to publicly bash their decision on every public forum I have access to.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

The first amendment protects citizen speech from the government. It does not protect speech from consequences or actions by private individuals or companies.

And free speech does not begin and end at the first amendment. A company can violate your ability to speak freely without also violating your first amendment rights.

Freedom of speech is infact dead. When the government and corporations are in bed with each other, that's a convenient way to separate actions. And as we've seen in so many other ways, the government loves to use corporations to do the things that they "aren't allowed" to do, because tech moves at light speed compared to laws

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Man I hate that things I used to love became so mainstream.