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> I don't know any society that would tolerate a person standing outside his neighbor's home and screaming death threats Such societies did and do exist, but u
by mathgeek 7y ago
> I don't know any society that would tolerate a person standing outside his neighbor's home and screaming death threats
Such societies did and do exist, but usually they are good examples of why we limit hate speech. Nazi Germany and the US South during the KKK’s peak are a couple easy ones to reference. Both of those are examples of societies without free speech that still allowed speech that most societies do not.
- JohnBooty 7y agoAnd, even then (at least in the US in the late 1800s) it was never legal to scream death threats at people or take other terroristic actions. The laws, unfortunately, were simply well enforced and a lot of people suffered as a result.