# JK Rowling supports freedom of speech

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jk-rowling-supports-freedom-of-speech/755121>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 18, 2016, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jk-rowling-supports-freedom-of-speech/755121 "2016-05-18T22:13:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jk-rowling-supports-freedom-of-speech/755121/1 "2016-05-18T22:13:10Z")

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[Even for Trump](http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/18/jk-rowling-free-speech-dissent-donald-trump). I don’t think either participant needs any introduction or explanation, but she’s right.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jk-rowling-supports-freedom-of-speech/755121/2 "2016-05-18T22:23:00Z")

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She’s also a libertarian, so it’s not exactly news. I’m not entirely sure why you brought it up. Anyone who tried to say otherwise would be trashed on this board.

It’s only an issue in the rest of the world that doesn’t see Freedom of Speech as an end unto itself.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jk-rowling-supports-freedom-of-speech/755121/3 "2016-05-18T22:30:53Z")

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The website’s concurrent headline _Chinese couple spend wedding night copying Communist constitution_ speaks to a far greater tragedy.

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**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jk-rowling-supports-freedom-of-speech/755121/4 "2016-05-18T22:38:23Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> She’s also a libertarian, so it’s not exactly news.

What makes you say that? It’s maybe a trans-Atlantic difference in terminology, but what I know of her politics and charitable work suggests that she isn’t at all.

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**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jk-rowling-supports-freedom-of-speech/755121/5 "2016-05-18T22:40:44Z")

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> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> The website’s concurrent headline _Chinese couple spend wedding night copying Communist constitution_ speaks to a far greater tragedy.

So that’s what the cool kids are calling wild sexy times these days, huh?

[Reads article]

That’s just sad.