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Re:Is Hate Speech Legal? by asmor on Friday December 30, 2022 @02:33PM (#34188990)
Typically, hate speech wasn't afforded the same reach 60 years ago that it may have now. You have to remember that all these idealistic views happened in the context of a very harsh monopoly on mass media and a much tighter control of which opinions would be platformed on there (can you imagine a communist being allowed to speak during the cold war, other suppression of speech in that area aside?)
Re:Is Hate Speech Legal? by barbariangrunge on Friday December 30, 2022 @03:38PM (#34189810)
I suspect it’s not so much the internet so much as bots and fake accounts that expanded the reach ago make nasty ideas grow. And algorithm newsfeeds designed to maximize emotional engagement. I may be wrong, but the issue isn’t free speech but fake people pushing topics into engagement maximizing systems that control most of the internet
Re:Is Hate Speech Legal? by e67f70028a46fba on Friday December 30, 2022 @05:59PM (#34191142)
There was a mass media monopoly in 1788?