“Free Speech” Issue? Telegram Founder With More Than 100 Biological Children Accused of Protecting Child Sex Traffickers

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

Before I start writing about the headline news event from this past weekend where the founder of the Telegram platform was arrested in France, I think it is helpful to first define a term that is being used with almost all of the coverage of this event in the media, which is the term “free speech”.

The term “free speech” is used today, particularly in the mostly “right-wing” alternative media, as if its definition is universally understood.

However, the term “free speech” is anything but understood the same way by everyone who uses it.

The first thing to understand about “free speech” is that in its absolute form, it doesn’t exist.

Absolute and total “free speech” is not allowed by any country of the world today, and every country in the world today has laws that regulate and prohibit total “free speech.”

The most common example given in the English language in western countries, is the example of someone running into a sold-out movie theater and yelling “FIRE!”, which results in a mad rush towards the exits where people trample each other causing deaths and injuries, when in fact, there never was any fire at all.

The person who would have caused such a panic, would be arrested, and their claim to “free speech” would not be upheld in a court of law.

Likewise, lying in public or on a publicly accessible Internet platform where someone lies about another person, or even just gives false information, that results in that person suffering harm, is also illegal according to the laws of slander and libel speech, and the victim can sue the person practicing their “free speech” that caused them harm.

Every country in the world has laws in place to protect people against such “free speech”, as well as what is legally acceptable to publish in terms of images and videos.