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Hmmm here's another one : California SB 1234, signed into law last September, states that "hate speech" is any public expression that makes some people feel "unwelcome" or "intimidated." If convicted a person is subject to 6 months in jail and up to a $25,000 fine. Scary. That's nightmare material, there. The point is that such laws are out there. Applicable only to the left, of course.

[IAMNO1]

"How about Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire?"

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"California SB 1234, signed into law last September, states that "hate speech" is any public expression that makes some people feel "unwelcome" or "intimidated.""

Regarding Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, it involved "the use in a public place of words likely to cause a breach of the peace." The US Supreme Court stated "(a) statute punishing verbal acts, carefully drawn so as not unduly to impair liberty of expression, is not too vague for a criminal law."

This is a 1942 ruling by the Court, hardly something new, and it involved person to person contacts, where one side was trying to provoke the other, not a letter to the editor expressing your displeasure over something or someone.

Regarding the recent California law (if it actually addresses hate speech alone without foul deeds having been committed), I'll comment on it when and if it survives constitutional scrutiny by the US Supreme Court. Until then, it's just another California law to be added to a heap of other stupid legislation.