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View submission: Should we have freedom of hate speech?
Agreed, and yes the law is more granular than I described it. Hurting someone's feelings is not a crime.
This is what I think people don't get - you never get arrested just for saying a word. There are no illegal words. Words have meaning *in their context*.
Pick any crime at all. Now add racial slurs to it - it's a racially motivated crime. That's how it works.
So "hate speech" itself is never going to be picked up unless it's within a crime. Imagine it as just adding severity to something. Like 0 crime with added severity is still 0 crime. 1 crime with added severity is now **1 crime**.
Comment by KWalthersArt at 31/01/2025 at 03:12 UTC
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one problem I see is that sometimes a person does need to imped, its kind of like blocking someone's sun or standing in front of someone at a concert and is taller then those behind.
Sometimes speaking in ones own defense or validation, expressing a different cultural experience can be seen to some as an attack.
For example I draw pinups, some think their existence is an insult to them and would see it as hate speech.
Add in that we have businesses that want to appear "good" and they are encouraged to censor anything that isn't mainstream or common.
I personally think that companies should be transparent about bans and so on so that if they abuse the power they can be called out.
Do you concur?