The Free Speech Argument [View all]

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Wish more folks would actually understand this. But understanding of ones rights tends to be less about the actual meaning and more about what it means to the person at hand and often their persecution complex.

The site (xckd.com) also has some hovertext for it as well:

"I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express."