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>US is pretty much the only country where this stuff is unlikely to happen Not really, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org

by GaggiX 3y ago

>US is pretty much the only country where this stuff is unlikely to happen Not really, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law Edit: reading the replies, some users seem to have lost their reading comprehension skills, the US is not the only country where this would be unlucky to happen.

sn_master 3y ago
Not really, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_Unite... Can you name even one case?
ratsmack 3y ago
Your link indicates the US has no blasphemy laws, btw.
- praptak 3y ago
  I think GP point is that it's not the only country where this could not happen.
frankjr 3y ago
Better to link directly to [0], which lists a few cases from a long time ago, but overall the situation in the US looks pretty good. In the rest of the world however... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in_the_United_St...
xyzzyz 3y ago
Your link only refers to religious sensibilities, and I specifically mentioned secular sensibilities as well, precisely to preempt this sort of retort. For example, France is marked green in your link, but it very much does exactly what I said in my original comment: prosecutes and punishes people for their literal speech. Here's an example high-profile case from last year. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60022996 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60022996 Can you name a single country in the world which has similarly liberal free speech norms to US? Something close to the Brandenburg v Ohio standard? I'll wait.
- GaggiX 3y ago
  >Your link only refers to religious sensibilities Yes because that's the topic and "US is pretty much the only country where this stuff is unlikely to happen" is simply wrong, about the rest of your comment you could be right or wrong but I honestly don't really care.

by GaggiX 3y ago

sn_master 3y ago

Not really, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_Unite... Can you name even one case?

ratsmack 3y ago

Your link indicates the US has no blasphemy laws, btw.

praptak 3y ago
I think GP point is that it's not the only country where this could not happen.

frankjr 3y ago

Better to link directly to [0], which lists a few cases from a long time ago, but overall the situation in the US looks pretty good. In the rest of the world however... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in_the_United_St...

xyzzyz 3y ago

Your link only refers to religious sensibilities, and I specifically mentioned secular sensibilities as well, precisely to preempt this sort of retort. For example, France is marked green in your link, but it very much does exactly what I said in my original comment: prosecutes and punishes people for their literal speech. Here's an example high-profile case from last year. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60022996 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60022996 Can you name a single country in the world which has similarly liberal free speech norms to US? Something close to the Brandenburg v Ohio standard? I'll wait.

GaggiX 3y ago
>Your link only refers to religious sensibilities Yes because that's the topic and "US is pretty much the only country where this stuff is unlikely to happen" is simply wrong, about the rest of your comment you could be right or wrong but I honestly don't really care.