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With the police visiting grannies based on their Facebook posts, I’d say the UK should be right there next to the US.
by mrkstu 2y ago
With the police visiting grannies based on their Facebook posts, I’d say the UK should be right there next to the US.
- tim333 2y agoI not sure allowing / banning hate speech is that central to democracy. The ones who get jailed are like "inciting racial hatred with Facebook posts in which he advocated an attack on a hotel in Leeds as part of the violent public disorder..." If it was the police having a go for criticizing the government I'd say it was undemocratic, but for inciting violence it seems ok. If I go on social media where you are trying to encourage arson, murder etc are the law enforcement there ok with that? (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/09/two-men-jailed-for-social-media-posts-that-stirred-up-far-right-violence https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/09/two...)
- consteval 2y agoI concur. The US has taken an “anything goes” approach to speech and clearly it hasn’t helped us. In fact, it’s only allowed disinformation to spread. I mean, Jan 6th is directly the result of an “all speech is equal” approach. Intuitively we know this isn’t how speech works - the town dumbass is probably spewing BS, and the pharmacist might have a point. But when we distill it down to all the same thing and then throw in the immediate and vast nature of the internet, things get hairy. It’s tough because, of course, nobody wants to let someone else decide who is right and who is wrong. But someone is actually right, and letting everyone decide for themselves isn’t currently working.