One of these things is not like the others...
Free speech is limited in the case of not being able to yell "fire" in a movie theater because it would directly endanger the people in the movie theater who could quite possibly trample each other to death running for the exits.
Every second day someone calls me an anti-Semite because I believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Joe Biden is being called "genocide Joe" at campaign stops. Soldiers are being called Nazis online all the time: US, Israeli and Azov regiment soldiers in Ukraine. Nothing in any of the examples in this paragraph holds any existential danger for anyone.
I watched the video until the claim the Lira was a spy came up. I'd never heard that before, so I went and checked if I was up to date on what he had been charged with. I was correct (see my previous comment).
When someone starts their video with such a clear falsehood on a the basic premise of the video, then I would have to question and research every other thing he says that I don't know off the top of my head. What is the point of watching when he gets the most important point, "Why was Lira arrested" wrong?
"Someone should have gotten him out of Ukraine and back to Chile or the U.S." Your damn right about that! The US state department was asked about Lira and basically brushed it off. Ukraine is supposedly our ally. We spent weeks and traded a known weapons dealer to get Brittney Griner back from Russia for her clearly breaking Russia's (insanely harsh IMO) drug laws. We couldn't spare a phone call to get Lira expelled from Ukraine? Of course we could have. We just didn't want to.
Was Lira stupid for staying in Ukraine and making those videos? I surely think so. Should he be sent to a labor camp for saying WORDS that the Ukrainian government doesn't like? If you say yes, then you better be consistent that it is fine what Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, Russia, and North Korea (to name a few) do to their dissidents.
