Comment on Is it possible to have a "free speech" platform that simultaneously stops "hate speech"?

• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  At the societal level with hate speech laws you can’t use bots though. You’re going to have to waste the courts time by wasting real people’s time dragging them in front of judges for protest actions. Eventually the courts will just make it a fine that police can quickly issue.

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  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sure you can. These bots are called “lawyers.” Zionists and Scientologists being extreme examples of abusing the courts and ambiguous laws to produce similar results.

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Except that they’ve been largely unsuccessful at the legal level. Courts in every western country recognizes the valid right to protest Israel and the actions of the Israeli government and expressly does not consider that anti-Semitic or hate speech.

      There have been a few minor edge cases in some countries around controversial slogans like ‘From the River to the Sea’, and directly expressing support for organizations like Hamas, but by and large hate speech laws have not been abused. They’re mostly used to shut down and arrest neo Nazis and xenophobic rioters.

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      • surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Uh huh. So I guess all of those anti-bds laws can just be ignored?

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