Free speech under attack across Ireland, UK, Europe and globally

Re:Free speech under attack across Ireland, UK, Europe and g... by trafficante on Monday May 08, 2023 @11:25PM (#35869838)

Upthread there’s a comment from “uvnq” that seemed unnecessarily hyperbolic, with phrasing like:

> They believe hate speech is violence. Not that it merely is bad, but that it actually equates to violence. In fact, certain forms of hate speech are not just violence, but genocide.

And then I get down the thread a bit and find the exact behavior described in uvnq’s post.

If the simple tagline “news without a liberal filter” can be interpreted as an indirect deadly threat against an individual’s life and very existence, then the moral framework has already been established to violently respond in “self-defense”.

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Re:Free speech under attack across Ireland, UK, Europe and g... by eyelidlessness on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @12:19AM (#35870130)

I don’t need to be hyperbolic about speech as violence. The actual violence is violent. I also don’t need to make time to listen to the speech of people who want to do violence to me

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Re:Free speech under attack across Ireland, UK, Europe and g... by rainytuesday on Friday May 12, 2023 @09:54AM (#35916346)

Any publication to the right of Hillary Clinton is allegedly a threat to his existence; what a bad faith argument. Abandonment of truth in favor of "harm reduction" is the big picture, that's why everyone is worried about AI spitting out something contrary to the current phase of the sexual revolution or core liberal beliefs.

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