Comment on Is it possible to have a "free speech" platform that simultaneously stops "hate speech"?
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoSure you can. These bots are called “lawyers.” Zionists and Scientologists being extreme examples of abusing the courts and ambiguous laws to produce similar results.
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.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Uh huh. So I guess all of those anti-bds laws can just be ignored?