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0 pointsISL5y ago0 comments

The part where you can speak your mind without consequence from the government.

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sct2025y ago

Freedom of speech is not the same in the rest of the world outside of America. Lots of European countries have hate speech laws in place where you can be convicted of crimes for speaking your mind if it's hateful. The EU has been pressuring large tech companies into self complying https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/28/16380526/eu-hate-speech-l...

But just the other day, there was a huge post with lots of uproar about how Google was flagging apps like mastodon for having no content standards regarding hate speech.

fvv5y ago

don't you realize that you are comparing that "hate speech" at EU level of "hate speech" with the possibility of saying free tibet? those are the same thing for you ? why I'm still replying here.. I think that I'm fighting the 50 cent party .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party

sct2025y ago

They're not the same but I don't think that laws from China or Europe or some other country should impact services in America. If we want the same restrictions we can make the laws ourselves.

kube-system5y ago

All of the western world agrees on the freedom of the press and the protection of political speech -- and that those things are necessary for the protections of human rights.

RandoHolmes5y ago

Reminds me of the guy who taught his girlfriends dog to raise it's paw when it saw hitler talking or when it heard the phrase "heil hitler". He did it as a joke and put the video on youtube and ended up going to jail over it.

Which I very strongly disagree with. It was perhaps in poor taste, but hurt no one.

sdoering5y ago

It happened in Germany, where he went to jail, because he regularly showed forbidden Nazi insignia as well as regularly doing the Hitler salute and shouting "Sieg Heil" - all of which is forbidden by law in Germany.

Especially after he was already on probation for earlier transgressions against these laws.

He did not go to jail because he "only" teached his dog (it was actually his dog) a poor taste trick.

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pjc505y ago

Several European countries have bans on racial hatred and Nazi content because of what happened last time Nazis were allowed to promote hatred on an enormous scale: six million people were exterminated in camps, over and above the civilian and military casualties of the war.

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sct2025y ago

But just the other day, there was a huge post with lots of uproar about how Google was flagging apps like mastodon for having no content standards regarding hate speech.

fvv5y ago

sct2025y ago

They're not the same but I don't think that laws from China or Europe or some other country should impact services in America. If we want the same restrictions we can make the laws ourselves.

kube-system5y ago

All of the western world agrees on the freedom of the press and the protection of political speech -- and that those things are necessary for the protections of human rights.

RandoHolmes5y ago

Which I very strongly disagree with. It was perhaps in poor taste, but hurt no one.

sdoering5y ago

Especially after he was already on probation for earlier transgressions against these laws.

He did not go to jail because he "only" teached his dog (it was actually his dog) a poor taste trick.

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pjc505y ago

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