What exactly constitutes hate speech? I’ve wondered about this for several years and speaking with friends and colleagues, I can’t come up with a specific definition. If someone offends me in any way, is that hate speech? If I wrote a tweet about some religious group or political group that I dislike, is that hate speech?
As of this writing, I find that there are 29 countries that have enacted laws that prohibit hate speech. These laws vary somewhat country to country but prohibt their citizens, in general, from using insults of any kind against another group based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.
If you’ve been following Twitter today, it appears Milo Yiannopoulos and Julie Bindel have been banned from speaking on a panel at Manchester University. A panel on free speech. Lovely, isn’t it? I really wish this was news but it isn’t.
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Yeah. The guy that won the “Draw Mohammed” contest last weekend. Not a great day for “free speech” is it?
There’s a word I’ve been seeing used a lot since the incident n Garland, TX, over the weekend by so-called “free speech advocates” that disturbs me. That word, three little letters, a preposition, “but”.
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It looks like the government wants to try and control speech over the Internet.
I doubt this will go anywhere,but it would be devastating to the Internet if the government were to start policing it. I’m sure there’s a few out there that would applaud this bill becoming law. You know of whom I speak. Of course, the downside is that their speech would fall under the same rule, but then, they’re really not the smartest kids in the class as they think they are.
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