xkcd: Free Speech

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Allow me to indulge in some Internet speak for a moment: This. So very much this.

Also, the mouse-over text for this comic is "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."

Yeah, it's sad and a little scary how so very many people misunderstand what "freedom of speech" actually means and how it works.

(EDIT) As evidence of the previous statement, all one needs to do is simply look at all the blogs and such out there in Internet-land of people who are trying (and failing) to show how this xkcd comic is wrong and how Randall Munroe supposedly doesn't know what he's talking about. Again, as I said, it's sad and a little scary. (/EDIT)