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Should governments be punishing insulting or giving offense? That's a very scary prospect in my mind. Could we even have meaningful political dialog if, for ex
by clinta 10y ago
Should governments be punishing insulting or giving offense? That's a very scary prospect in my mind.
Could we even have meaningful political dialog if, for example, it was illegal to intentionally offend Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton?
The idea of a right to not be insulted has scary implications.
- zeveb 10y ago> Could we even have meaningful political dialog if, for example, it was illegal to intentionally offend Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? That's actually exactly what Citizens United was about … a group of people were trying to show a film critical of Mrs. Clinton, and the federal government attempted to punish them for it. That's why there was a big push in 2014 to repeal the First Amendment: politicians wanted to make it illegal to oppose politicians.
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoA line has to be drawn. There is no right to not be insulted per se, but persistent abuse and harassment of an individual cannot be allowed.
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- DanBC 10y ago> Should governments be punishing insulting or giving offense? That's a very scary prospect in my mind Luckily they're not doing that. They're waiting for the offence to cause harm, and then they step in.