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Agree. She thinks she can win the election with this approach. Assuming this is properly researched it illustrates where the electorate stands. A good portion of the voters seem to want to be guided as to what they can and cannot say.
Hate speech is very real. Censoring it is not only constitutionally dubious but also ineffective for a number of reasons, but simply calling it out and movong on with your life is often enough! Except of course when people looking to spread hate train their audience to automatically attack anyone who does so...
She broke the law by inciting and encouraging others to burn down hotels housing asylum seekers. Some people actually tried to do so as we saw. That type of speech can quite reasonably be described as "hate speech". All civilised societies have laws which place limits on free speech. That's why we have laws that prohibit incitement to violence and murder.
Thats fine, it is technically incitement to violence i agree and broke the law. This is a rare case that something called hate speech is actually incitement to violence though as most of the time its not. Although like i indicated i can understand how people are getting so frustrated that they feel the need to resort to this kind of extreme behaviour and speech. Working class people get a lot of their joy in life from the simple things like social cohesion, camaraderie, togetherness, identity, familiarity. Their main things in life arent money and power like those few who are making much of the decisions for the country
I don't even pay attention to these platforms anymore. I don't have any idea what happens on these them. I don't even know what she defines as hate speech. I don't know why countries like the US and Brazil are banning these platforms. I don't even care. We have freedom tech.
To be clear, this speech is from 2019. As we've already seen with regard to other topics, 2024 anointed Presidential candidate Harris - intent on pandering to the middle - can't be expected to hold the same policy positions as 2019 no-shot Presidential candidate Harris - intent on scratching out a niche. In other words, who knows what political expediency would eventually dictate for 2025 President Harris' policy positions if she wins? View quoted note →
Ok no this is straight up insanity. I don't like either side but this is absolutely gross 🤢 🤮 #freedomofspeech #dtom #insanity #thisiswhynostr #grownostr #thisistheway #nostrorbust image #politics #uspol
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“Hate speech” is a made up Marxist euphemism. A dog whistle for aspiring censors. There is no such thing as hate speech. There is only speech that particular people don’t like.
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Look I believe in free speech and people’s right to be intolerant. But to say there isn’t hate speech is a bit of a stretch. If I was to wander the streets saying all “insert ethnic group here” must die, I think that fits the definition. Semantics…
Thoughts appear. Thoughts come seemingly out of nowhere, maybe subconscious? Arguably, thoughts are not chosen, they appear. Thoughts are affected by feelings. Feelings are affected by the surrounding world. Happenings are encountered: scare, anxiousness, winning the lottery - or speech. Again, the surrounding world affects feelings. Speech also does. Speech leads to feeling, feeling leads thought, thought leads to action. Action, call it cause and effect or whatever happens in the world, is important. It should matter. Then the question: what would you then call for example speech that causes people to make others suffer enormously?
Governments of the world do not solve major issues (economy, immigration, all these (fake) crisis). Not because they are not able, but because they are the cause. So, governments go ahead and cause more problems, like jailing people for wrong-think. What else is new. We truly live in an Orwellian nightmare.
I think #kamala is right in some part as you are right in some part. I think socialmedia which use algorythms to promote aggressive language, provocation with no other intention then to provoke someone, this does not add to free speech. It rather obligates people to read this in favor of decent more calm language. But you are also right in the way, that hatespeech is defined from the reader and no objective measurement. And to defend democracy, we need to accept critique in all forms and allow bad language. It should rather be critiqued as well and be distrusted by the public instead of censoring it by police.