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I do believe hate speech is illegal already. Certainly online harassment leading to someone committing suicide is. KF is a platform that facilitates these act

• yanderekko 4y ago
  >Certainly online harassment leading to someone committing suicide is. Documenting people's lives is not harassment.
  • robert_foss 4y ago
    It most definitely can be. To have all of your privacy taken away from you.
  • paulmd 4y ago
    Which jurisdiction are you speaking about? Do you have legal qualifications to dispense this advice? The US is rather unique in their absolutist view of free speech and other countries don't work the same way. Generally, for example, this would be a violation of UK law.
• whalecancer 4y ago
• pessimizer 4y ago
  Neither of those things are illegal in the US.
• Natsu 4y ago
  > I do believe hate speech is illegal already. Not in the USA, no. https://www.popehat.com/2015/05/19/how-to-spot-and-critique-censorship-tropes-in-the-medias-coverage-of-free-speech-controversies/ https://www.popehat.com/2015/05/19/how-to-spot-and-critique-... > Certainly online harassment leading to someone committing suicide is. Harassment can be, but here "harassment" means making threats of violence, not just criticizing someone. That falls under "true threats": https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1025/true-threats https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1025/true-threats Note that the older "fighting words" doctrine is probably obsolete and even then only applies to face-to-face conversation. For more on that see the prior link to Popehat.