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Re:Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook political ads policy ... by newfriend on Thursday October 31, 2019 @05:22PM (#21413831)
Hate speech doesn't exist in the US, and I hope it never does. We don't need more laws deciding what an individual is allowed to say.

To your point, how is there no way to police threatening messages advertised on facebook? It seems quite easy to figure out who paid for the ad if they are indeed breaking the law with threats.

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Re:Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook political ads policy ... by solinent on Friday November 08, 2019 @07:54PM (#21488675)
That's just a technicality, a semantic discussion of what hate really is. By the colloquial definition the laws do exist. You can look up the fighting words doctrine. Threats of violence do not fall under hate speech, but are definitely illegal, look up the definition of assault in the US.
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