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Hate speech and most speech that falls under the category presently described by social media users in 2023 as "harassment" is decidedly not illegal, and is in
by sneak 3y ago
Hate speech and most speech that falls under the category presently described by social media users in 2023 as "harassment" is decidedly not illegal, and is in fact protected expression.
Threats are not protected, but the vaguely defined concept of "hate speech" that is not already-illegal direct threats of violence isn't really a thing.
This seems to be a common misconception. If it were violent threats, which are illegal, people would just call it that. When people say "hate speech" they are attempting to promote censorship of otherwise-legal expression that most of society nevertheless finds repugnant.
- Guvante 3y agoYou are mixing many different viewpoints here and it is diluting whatever point you were making. Harassment has a legal definition and so a law referring to it is not "as described by social media users"... You then decide by fiat that the entire thing is pointless because of how you feel which ignores the very real problems on social media of exactly the kinds of messaging you claim this isn't about.