Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer
by Melchizedek on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:19PM
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>that's why all countries that do not have USA style free speech are dictatorships
They partly are. The USA, for all its faults, is the last bastion of free speech in the world. And I say this as a European.
Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer
by matt4077 on Monday August 14, 2017 @04:08PM
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You seem to defend the idea that 'limitations to free speech lead to dictatorships' by defining a dictatorship as 'any government that puts limitations on free speech'.
...which is obviously tautological.
For better data, check out the democracy index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index#Democracy_Inde.... It's compiled by the publisher of The Economist, which is trusted rather widely, and its methodology is public.
You're not going to see any trouble anywhere - except on private property - for expressing ideas such as 'men and women differ biologically', note that no government you'd care to list here has ever suppressed speech like that.
But Nazism is on a different level, and if you're willing to go down that road protecting the free speech of Nazis you really have to be very optimistic about human nature. I keep hearing echoes of 'it can't happen here'. But I believe it can happen, and it probably can happen everywhere. The question is if we will let it and what it will take to stop it once the ball starts rolling.