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Interestingly, "typical European Free Speech laws" are both more and less restricting than you would see in the US - there's more limits on harmful ideologies a
by glogla 6y ago
Interestingly, "typical European Free Speech laws" are both more and less restricting than you would see in the US - there's more limits on harmful ideologies and violence but less restrictions on sex and nudity, for example.
Of course it's not just constitutions and laws - movie ratings are not de iure laws but work that way de facto - and EU limits other things, like advertisement of pharmaceuticals.
Comparing the different approaches needs finesse and not just "free US vs non-free Europe".
- freeflight 6y ago> there's more limits on harmful ideologies and violence but less restrictions on sex and nudity, for example. Also more mindful about privacy, in many EU countries one can't just doxx people, not even criminals. A popular example is this story about a Swiss parliament secretary who got fired for posting nudes from her workplace. EU outlets censored her face and left the nipple [0], US and AUS outlets showed her face but censored her nipple [1], while the British Mirror pixelated both [2]. [0] https://images05.österreich.at/sex_01.jpg/rl2015_article_slideshow/153.346.409 https://images05.xn--sterreich-z7a.at/sex_01.jpg/rl2015_arti... [1] https://www.9news.com.au/world/swiss-secretary-posted-nude-selfies-from-inside-parliament/6f7eb011-5bfa-43ce-98a1-42a269c70559 https://www.9news.com.au/world/swiss-secretary-posted-nude-s... [2] https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/secretary-working-swiss-parliament-posted-4006923 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/secretary-working-s...