Posted on 11/30/2020 7:14:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
We have previously discussed the alarming rollback on free speech rights in the West, particularly in Europe. The move to criminalize speech has led to an insatiable appetite for new limitations and broader prosecutions. Norway is an example of this headlong plunge into speech controls and crimes in the West. This week the legislature adopted (without even a vote) a new criminal law that punishes people for saying anything deemed hate speech toward transgender people in their own home or private conversations.
Minister of Justice and Public Security Monica Maeland declared victory because speech regulation must be “adapted to the practical situations that arise.” The “practical situation” includes speaking to your own spouse or family.
Birna Rorslett, vice president of the Association of Transgender People in Norway added allowing people to speak out against transgender values or issues “has been an eyesore for trans people for many, many years.”
Such speech controls in Europe have led to a chilling effect on political and religious speech. In their homes, people will often share religious and political views that depart from majoritarian values or beliefs. This law would regulate those conversations and criminalize the expression of prohibited viewpoints.
As we recently discussed, a poll in Germany found only 18 percent of Germans feel free to express their views in public. Notably, over 31 percent of Germans did not even feel free expressing themselves in private among friends. Just 17 percent felt free to express themselves on the Internet and 35 percent said that freedom to speak is confined to the smallest of private circles.
The most chilling fact is that European-style speech controls have become a core value in the Democratic Party. Once a party that fought for free speech, it has become the party demanding Internet censorship and hate speech laws. President-Elect Joe Biden has called for speech controls and recently appointed a transition head for agency media issues that is one of the most pronounced anti-free speech figures in the United States. It is a trend that seems now to be find support in the media, which celebrated the speech of French President Emmanuel Macron before Congress where he called on the United States to follow the model of Europe on hate speech.
For free speech advocates, we need to educate the public on where this road leads in places like Norway. What is at stake is the very right that has long defined us as a nation. Once we cross the Rubicon into speech criminalization and controls, Europe has shown that it is rarely possible to work back to liberties lost. We are moving into potentially the most anti-free speech period of American history — and possibly the most anti-free speech Administration. Many politicians are already arguing for citizens to give up their free speech rights in forums like the Internet. With the media echoing many of these anti-free speech sentiments, it will require a greater effort of those who value the First Amendment and its core place in our constitutional system.
There is a guy i Norway named Bjorn Andreas Bull-Hansen who has a YouTube channel. He talks about the increasing tyranny in Norway (and in many European countries).
Sounds like they learned something from the Nazi occupation which they so bravely fought against.
They’re all little Hitlers!!!!
Note to Self: never visit Norway too
Its absolutely bizarre how extreme sexual deviants and the mentally ill have taken over cultural leadership of the West.
What slippery slope? We’re soooo paranoid!
Likely coming here, by Executive Order, in violation of the First Amendment (obviously).
AND if we let the Democrats win Georgia and pack the Courts (as some here want to do), the EO will be upheld, in spite of the First Amendment.
Apparently Quisling still lives on in Norway and in a not so supple way.
WONT BE SURPRISED TO SEE MANY FATHERS GOING TO JAIL FOR KILLING SNITCHES AND THE JUDGES WHO CONVICT THEM.
Old saying: The only thing dumber than a dumb Swede is a smart Norwegian.
Ahh Norway!! This is the country Bernie Sanders wants the USA to emulate.
MORE HERE:
https://www.cnrlawyers.com/news/high-speeding-ticket-fines/
Do you make an annual income of $30,000 a year? If you’re caught speeding in Norway, expect to pay a $3,000 fine on your ticket. Norway levies a fine of 10% of your annual income for speeding tickets. Alongside the fine, Norwegian law imposes a mandatory minimum 18-day jail sentence for speeds deemed excessive.
If Biteme take office and the communists take the Senate, 100% guaranteed that will happen here. Every freak and non-white person will have hate speech laws around them all except white people who will continue to be trashed every day. Oh and BTW, remember BLM demanding white people give up their houses to blacks? That will happen as well, especially under a Kamalaho administration.
That’s what happens when liberal women run everything.
Initially I read the headline as “Newsom criminalizes hate speech against transgenders”. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if he did.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622436/live-not-by-lies-by-rod-dreher/
It seems lefist tyranny is every where today because nobody fights back. Eventually people will be forced to fight back. I think I read about that guy Hansen once, he writes novels as well?
RE: That’s what happens when liberal women run everything.
Ahhh, but she boasts that Norway has one of the lowest Covid-19 infection rates in the world — much lower than neighboring Sweden.
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