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    "title": "The Proper Consequences for Speech",
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    "html": "<p style=\"font-size: 80%\">(Adapted from my talk <a href=\"/talks/\">Your Project Needs a Code of Conduct, OR ELSE</a>.)</p>\n<p>Leftists often say, regarding free speech, that \"You might get freedom of speech, but you don't get freedom from consequences!\" All right, then, let's go with that for a minute. <strong>What are the proper consequences for political speech that you disagree with?</strong></p>\n<p>Is it to burn down my house?</p>\n<p>Is it to call in a SWAT team to shoot me?</p>\n<p>Is it to drag me out of my car and beat me to death?</p>\n<p>Is it to punch me in the face when you see me on the sidewalk?</p>\n<p>Is it to cancel my financial accounts so that I cannot purchase goods and services?</p>\n<p>Is is to threaten my employers into firing me, so that I cannot provide for myself and my family?</p>\n<p>Is it to eject me from voluntary organizations?</p>\n<p>No.</p>\n<p>The proper consequences for political speech that you disagree with, are for you to offer opposing political speech; that is, not \"incitements to action\" but \"arguments.\"</p>\n"
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