Comment on Is it possible to have a "free speech" platform that simultaneously stops "hate speech"?
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoLove the timing making it so easy to disprove your argument. Just look at the flood of European countries abusing broad and ambiguous hate speech laws to crush dissent and crack down on criticism of Israel.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
You’re talking about the one instance of Germany ruling that a single controversial slogan was hate speech?
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
LoL. One instance?!
middleeasteye.net/…/uk-new-laws-police-palestine-…
theintercept.com/…/in-europe-hate-speech-laws-are…
electronicintifada.net/…/eu-pledges-help-israel-s…
truthout.org/…/jewish-anti-zionist-activist-descr…
newarab.com/…/uk-israeli-academic-arrested-after-…
masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
These are mostly incidents of people publicly expressing support for Hamas, and being arrested for expressing support for a designated terrorist organization, and pretty much all confined to the UK, which has some of the weakest individual protections in the EU / western world.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ahh. You’re a hasbara bot.
politico.eu/…/uk-far-right-britain-lawyer-keir-st…