Is Hate Speech Legal?
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Is Hate Speech Legal?
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#2The title of this post and the blog post itself should be "Is hate speech legal in the US?"
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#3All speech must be legal short of threats,fraud, etc. If one administration is given the power to outlaw speech you don't like, you may not like it when the next administration you didn't vote for does the same. Everyone should have the right to say what they want free of government repercussions. I would even go so far as to say what someone says and does on their free time is their business and not their employers as long as they are not representing themselves as speaking for the employer. Non violent Nazi on your free time, cool that's your business as long as you don't discuss it in any way shape or form at work and you treat all of your coworkers equally and with respect. Obviously if someone is committing felonies in support of their beliefs that's something else.
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#4Hate speech is not legal in many jurisdictions and it is perfectly possible to create a stable statutory definition of hate speech. See, for example, Germany: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksverhetzung
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#5Much like the law prevents rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges and on park benches, the First Amendment bars both the privileged and the marginalized from seeking to silence through state action those who would advocate their oppression.
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#6The title of this post and the blog post itself should be "Is hate speech legal in the US?"
Because, say, in Germany it's outright illegal.
Wikipedia has a helpful summary by country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_by_country
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#7Hate speech is not legal in many jurisdictions and it is perfectly possible to create a stable statutory definition of hate speech. See, for example, Germany: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksverhetzung
It also leads to the state censoring things, including on the internet. "Germany is a country where the Godwin's Law does not hold", as one of my friends once said.
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#8Hate speech is not legal in many jurisdictions and it is perfectly possible to create a stable statutory definition of hate speech. See, for example, Germany: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksverhetzung
Many things can be done, but it doesn't mean they should be.
Currently it seems asking for rights of indigenous palestinians is hate speech in Germany.
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#9The title of this post and the blog post itself should be "Is hate speech legal in the US?"
This post is on an American website running as a service of an American startup accelerator running out of America's tech hub, running on an American operating system based on a research project at an American university, and links to a post from an American organization concerned with American free speech law and policy. I feel like the applicable context is easily inferred.
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#10Much like the law prevents rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges and on park benches, the First Amendment bars both the privileged and the marginalized from seeking to silence through state action those who would advocate their oppression.
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