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Re:Walmart banned alcohol and swearing from Jet's offices an... by Danihan on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @02:51PM (#14657113)
Exactly. You could rewrite that for any cultural norm.

"I legitimately don't understand the odd obsession outside the US with banning guns. Do you arbitrarily categorize certain tools as 'bad,' then you ban such tools in a lot of everyday circumstances, and therefore such tools are made pointless."

It's even funnier, because in most countries hate speech is a criminal offense. The US has the least censoring of speech of any country I know of.

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Re:Walmart banned alcohol and swearing from Jet's offices an... by walshemj on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @04:10PM (#14657821)
Well in the UK it was mostly a panic over he general strike in 1926 that started the restrictions on the right to self defence (derived from common law)
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Re:Walmart banned alcohol and swearing from Jet's offices an... by dom0 on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @03:08PM (#14657254)
> because in most countries hate speech is a criminal offense.

Typically the standards are different from what seems to be called "hate speech" in the US. Though there are some odd laws around that should really just be removed.

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