At least in Finland the jail sentences have been related to extreme widely published antisemitism. Fines have been given for other sorts of hate speech.
If the U.S. wants this to be allowed, it is your business. But it is ours to decide, if we want to allow nazis synmpathy newspapers advocating killing of the jew. Generally, the americans are lost in their arrogance here, as always.
Germany have been bad in this regard since the 19th century and the UK has slippery sloped alot in the last 10 or whatever years to the outright silly state today.
The discourse I would trust here is: "hey it seems like there's a rise of literal Neo-Nazism; is this a free speech issue or something else?" Or maybe something like "misinformation in the social media age". 100% of what I see from the right is, "bawwww free speech", also "I should be able to spread as much misinformation as I want: free speech." Leaving out the fact that this clearly leads to serious social problems is deeply suspect.
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At least in Finland the jail sentences have been related to extreme widely published antisemitism. Fines have been given for other sorts of hate speech.
If the U.S. wants this to be allowed, it is your business. But it is ours to decide, if we want to allow nazis synmpathy newspapers advocating killing of the jew. Generally, the americans are lost in their arrogance here, as always.
Who decide what is hate speech?
The same people who decide what's defamation, slander, fraud, criminal intent, deceptive practices, etc. etc. etc.
Germany have been bad in this regard since the 19th century and the UK has slippery sloped alot in the last 10 or whatever years to the outright silly state today.
Any other countries I have missed?
The extrapolation to the entire Europe from a set of extreme outliers (Germany, understandably so, the UK, less so) is grossly disingenuous.
With the transition to digital totalitarianism, jail will be a "block" from the digital realm.
The discourse I would trust here is: "hey it seems like there's a rise of literal Neo-Nazism; is this a free speech issue or something else?" Or maybe something like "misinformation in the social media age". 100% of what I see from the right is, "bawwww free speech", also "I should be able to spread as much misinformation as I want: free speech." Leaving out the fact that this clearly leads to serious social problems is deeply suspect.
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This is a good example of what I'm talking about
No I agree with you. We _definitely should_ arrest people for silently praying within 50 meters of an abortion clinic. That's progress! :)