[Havoc]

Freedom of speech, as defined by the law, should mean the freedom to say anything you want without lawful prosecution from the government. That's it, that's all it should ever be. It does not protect you from someone who doesn't agree with you and wants to punch you in the dick for what you said. It doesn't protect you from lawsuit happy, easily insulted people either, because they can still take you to court if they want and given the US's backwards legal system they'd probably win because of 'emotional damages'. But the key factor is that the government doesn't throw you in jail because you say something that the people in power don't agree with.

As for safe spacers, those people are a joke and everyone should go out of their way to offend these people as much as humanly possible, just for the lolz. No-one has the right to not feel offended. I can tell someone they are a piece of shit and any human being with a spine will suck it up and not care about it for longer than the 2 seconds it takes for me to speak the words. I will make racist jokes and spread my dark humor all I want, because I find it funny and you need to be able to laugh about stuff like this. And if some safe spacer were to come up to me and tell me I've offended them with the stuff I say I'd tell them "good, now sit the fuck down before you hurt yourself".

Everything should be allowed to be said, I don't care how bad, dark, idiotic or downright retarded it is. Even completely denying the holocaust, which is a criminal offence in many European countries, should be allowed on the basis of freedom of speech and freedom of opinions, no matter how ill informed they may be.

The line should be drawn at promoting such opinions as fact, while they obviously aren't. Getting up on a pedestal and spreading (what we know for a fact is) misinformation to the masses should be illegal, because it degrades society and destroys knowledge as a whole. Allowing some douche muffin to spread the notion that 2 x 2 = 10 is not something that should ever be acceptable in a modern society.

In the same vein schools of any description shouldn't be allowed to base their teachings on personal beliefs and religion. US schools especially like to indoctrinate their children with their national anthem, and even going as far as teaching creationism as fact in certain remote places. But European schools can do a good job of that too. I attended a christian elementary school and was taught from the bible as being fact, which is just plain wrong, but apparently completely legal, which is insane.

So yes, freedom of speech should mean freedom of all speech, but not freedom to promote bullshit.