absolutist
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Now Musk, who has called himself a free-speech absolutist, while also vowing to take a hard line on child exploitation, faces growing calls for enforcement around the world and in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026
Despite her reputation in some quarters as a free-speech absolutist — a stroke of branding genius on her part — she is in fact an anti-speech activist.
From Salon • Dec. 22, 2025
This evokes the absolutist rhetoric of Louis XIV’s worst sycophants, which Saint-Simon despised.
From Slate • May 30, 2025
Describing the judgement as an "unreasonably absolutist definition of free speech", the university said the ruling would leave institutions "powerless to prevent abusive, bullying and harassing speech".
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2025
Upon the anarchy that would follow the absolutist regime was to be erected.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 by Various
