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In the US that is free speech which is allowed under the First Amendment.
by voidspark 1y ago
In the US that is free speech which is allowed under the First Amendment.
- ApolloFortyNine 1y agoPretty important too since now all you have to do to silence someone in Europe is argue it's hate speech. There was a time the lab leak covid theory was hate speech, people were calling people racists for mentioning it. Sometimes simply stating statistics can get construed as hate speech. I'm sure there's other good examples, but at the end of the day it just creates a bar for those trying to silence a topic to reach.
- voidspark 1y agoYes. “Hate speech” has a specific legal definition in the US. Holocaust denial is not hate speech. People should be allowed to question a historic event. People should be allowed to think.
- mdhb 1y agoThe rest of the world just watched you jail someone for writing an op-ed. Free speech is dead in the US and those who screamed the loudest about it the past decade turned out to be absolutely full of shit and shouldn’t ever be listened to moving forward.
- voidspark 1y agoI live on the opposite side of the world from the US. I’m not American. No freedom of speech in my country. I think you got the facts mixed up. The person who wrote the op ed was not an American citizen and they were not jailed, they were ordered to return to their home country. They were on a student visa which is conditional and it is a privilege, not a right. They raised some flags and the student visa was revoked.
- tempera 1y agoPresenting arguments against current climate warming theory will be categorized as hate speech and banned from the internet.