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Can't there just be things we think are unacceptable to our society, that our duly elected government makes effort to prevent?

Not if you believe in free speech. And I absolutely do not trust our duly elected government to regulate free speech.

NOBODY IS REGULATING FREE SPEECH

For crying out loud, transforming "the government took away a government-granted monopoly because it was deemed offensive" into "the government is interfering with free speech" is mind-boggling ludicrous and everyone advancing that argument in here really ought to be ashamed of themselves for conflating those things. The ruling does not prevent anyone from using any word anywhere, it just revokes certain legal rights they had to prevent other people from using that word.

Do some activists want to go further with it? Maybe, but no one with any real power is listening to them or thinks they have any case whatsoever. The limit of the government's power to regulate this issue is what they just did. There's no slippery slope*. Although I suppose Congress could pass some legislation that revokes other NFL privileges until they change it, that seems unlikely and would be a much better case of the government meddling where it doesn't belong.



*Also, when did the slippery slope stop being a fallacy that every intelligent person was loathe to invoke? I'm seeing it a lot lately and it should never, ever, ever come up. You might as well be saying "But think of the children!"

[stupac2]

Can't there just be things we think are unacceptable to our society, that our duly elected government makes effort to prevent?

Not if you believe in free speech. And I absolutely do not trust our duly elected government to regulate free speech.

NOBODY IS REGULATING FREE SPEECH

For crying out loud, transforming "the government took away a government-granted monopoly because it was deemed offensive" into "the government is interfering with free speech" is mind-boggling ludicrous and everyone advancing that argument in here really ought to be ashamed of themselves for conflating those things. The ruling does not prevent anyone from using any word anywhere, it just revokes certain legal rights they had to prevent other people from using that word.

Do some activists want to go further with it? Maybe, but no one with any real power is listening to them or thinks they have any case whatsoever. The limit of the government's power to regulate this issue is what they just did. There's no slippery slope*. Although I suppose Congress could pass some legislation that revokes other NFL privileges until they change it, that seems unlikely and would be a much better case of the government meddling where it doesn't belong.



*Also, when did the slippery slope stop being a fallacy that every intelligent person was loathe to invoke? I'm seeing it a lot lately and it should never, ever, ever come up. You might as well be saying "But think of the children!"