> So those signing that letter are the ones who will be able to fight a Cuba
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CB: The response from Cuba that was posted would tend to contradict your claim that these are gross human rights violations.
You are taking an abstract and isolated view of freedom of speech unrelated to other human rights. In a word, and I don't mean this as name calling , but analytically, your approach is bourgeois-metaphysical . Human rights are a bundle , a whole. Economic rights are human rights too. Speech that tends to undermine economic democracy , i.e. might lead to restoration of capitalism, is itself a violation of human rights. The socialist and holistic conception of freedom of speech and all rights is that they involve not only rights, but responsibilities. What your conception comes down to is "license of speech" not "freedom of speech". Speech that tends to undermine other freedoms is not "free speech". "Free speech' is also "freeing speech:".
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