From age and ID restrictions on the Internet, to charging rappers with “terrorism,” the U.K. is demolishing the most basic civil liberties. If we let them, U.S. leaders may be close behind.

From age and ID restrictions on the Internet, to charging rappers with “terrorism,” the U.K. is demolishing the most basic civil liberties. If we let them, U.S. leaders may be close behind.

  • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Distasteful surely must be protected but that wasn’t my point, my point was that hate-speech is often not distasteful is is harmful. It seems that it is not harmful enough, and if a hateful tweet doesn’t make people go on a witch-hunt it’s ok?

    Is the harm directly from the speech? Ideas aren’t actions & uncritically harming people is a choice.

    We’re all capable of reading stupid shit then taking it upon ourselves to harm people. Yet how many of us do? If I harmed someone, I wouldn’t consider shit I read & uncritically acted on a valid excuse. I’d consider failure to think in the least bit critically before acting a total & culpable lapse in judgement.

    Should we not hold every thinking person to that standard? Do you hold yourself to a different standard & think that would be a valid excuse?