Vader@sopuli.xyz to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 4 days agoShould hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws?message-squaremessage-square139linkfedilinkarrow-up190file-text
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minus-squareBlameThePeacock@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·4 days agoCanada restricts hate speech, as does most of Europe. Yet its the US with the speech suppression issues going on right now.
minus-squareDebatableRaccoon@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 days agoYou shouldn’t base a law on “The current government is okay” simply because the next one might not be.
minus-squarestormdelay@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 days agoThat implies the bad government will care about following the laws, or won’t change the law or its enforcement
minus-squareotp@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days ago You shouldn’t base a law on “The current government is okay” The definition of hate speech doesn’t change each time we get a new prime minister.
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up6·4 days agoEven with everything going on in America right now, it definitely doesn’t suppress free speech more than Germany or Britain. I mean the Palestine Action thing is still happening (while Reform gets to yap all day long, mind you).
Canada restricts hate speech, as does most of Europe.
Yet its the US with the speech suppression issues going on right now.
You shouldn’t base a law on “The current government is okay” simply because the next one might not be.
That implies the bad government will care about following the laws, or won’t change the law or its enforcement
The definition of hate speech doesn’t change each time we get a new prime minister.
Even with everything going on in America right now, it definitely doesn’t suppress free speech more than Germany or Britain. I mean the Palestine Action thing is still happening (while Reform gets to yap all day long, mind you).