About the violence inherent in Stack Exchange: freedom of speech

Question

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with clear intent to ❏ vandalize  ❏ plagiarize  ❏ revolutionize  ❏ editorialize  ❏ depersonalize  ❏ deglamorize  ❏ normalize  ❏ mordernize  ❏ deemphasize  ❏ harmonize  ❏ depolarize  ❏ decentralize  ❏ rationalize  ❏ reorganize  ❏ itemize  ❏ summarize  ❏ minimize  ❏ sterilize  ❏ downsize  ❏ satirize  ❏ penalize  ❏ resize  ❏ eulogize  ❏ publicize  ❏ criticize  ❏ oxidize  ❏ pulverize  ❏ suppress  ❏ repress  ❏ oppress  ❏ censor  ❏ pressure  ❏ displeasure  ❏ acupressure 

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through the following immortal words of wisdom past:

Ah! Now we see the violence inherent in the system! Come see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

Does this company not care about freedom of speech?

Answer 1

No.

Freedom of speech is an individual's limited freedom to publish his thoughts. It is not freedom to be published by anybody: the Wall Street Journal doesn't have to publish everything you send them, and neither does Stack Exchange.

In particular, the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is as follows:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The government (or their agents) cannot restrict your free speech, but the First Amendment says nothing about corporations limiting free speech, because corporations cannot limit free speech.

Freedom of speech applies only to countries and similar entities who cannot prevent certain kinds of expression (with exceptions such as libel) from being expressed at all. Feel free to exercise your freedom of speech by publishing your speech on a piece of paper placed against your window or something. Depending on your ISP, you might also be able to run your own web site on your own pocket by using your own hardware and software you have a licence for.

Posts made on this site (or chat) are published on the site because you, the owner of the copyright, gave the site a licence to do so.

You grant Stack Exchange the perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use, copy, cache, publish, display, distribute, modify, create derivative works and store such Subscriber Content and to allow others to do so in any medium now known or hereinafter developed (“Content License”) in order to provide the Services, even if such Subscriber Content has been contributed and subsequently removed by You.

http://stackexchange.com/legal

Of course Stack Exchange has the right not to exercise its licence, but if it does, it has the right to exercise it fully, including its right to publish derivative works. Your moral rights to your works of course remain valid; contact the team if you would like to anonymize your contributions. Your right to the integrity of your work is maintained by marking posts that have been edited as such (with exceptions such as question titles in lists thereof or chat messages on the list of starred messages), allowing you to audit its post history (with exceptions such as comments).