Re:Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door
by AnonCoward42 on Sunday October 09, 2022 @04:29PM
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> Hate speech as a crime is very much a thing in the U.S.; people have been fired from jobs, suspended or expelled from school, even arrested.
Isn't this some kind of mob rule basically? This is hard to avoid I think, but it is certainly detrimental to any society. It's at least something that this is not cast into legislation in the US (yet).
Re:Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door
by P5fRxh5kUvp2th on Sunday October 09, 2022 @04:47PM
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The other poster is wrong, the only thing listed that's indication of a crime (and even that isn't proof of a crime) is being arrested.
Nothing else is indication of any crime whatsoever.
On the one hand, there’s a long tradition of free speech absolutism, but on the other, also a long tradition of punishing speech. Then it ends up in court where usually it’s declared to be protected by the Bill of Rights.
Freedom needs to be re-litigated periodically.