But anti-"hate speech" laws eventually spread throughout Europe, and widened to include even mildly offensive speech that might be considered anti-Semitism, racism, Islamophobia, homophobia, and transphobia.
Important not to let the camel's nose into the tent.
I’m curious if Twitter has any infrastructure in Germany; and if not how the Germans have any juristiction in the matter. Perhaps they need to create a Great Chinese Maoist firewall so their snowflakes aren’t offended.
Keep the servers out of Germany, and let the German ISPs do the enforcing.
Gee I don’t remember Twitter getting sued for the millions and millions of anti conservative posts that were floating around for the last decade or so.
The idea about free speech is that it allows erroneous ideas to be exposed. A even handed reading of the Hebrew Scriptures would lead one to believe that YHWH was pretty antisemitic at times. Should the Bible be banned?
This writeup may set a record for use of the word “hate.”
Same thing with French forums - they have a clause concerning holocaust denial.
Want Musk opening a Giga Factory in Germany? Oh well.
Passing a law to prevent any challenges to any claims about anything tells me that the claims aren’t strong enough to withstand scrutiny. Outlawing something just to protect the precious feelings of any group is not a legitimate use of the legal system.
“Hate Speech’ laws are nothing more than speech & thought control.
Elon should totally shutdown Twitt in the EU.
-fJRoberts-
MMM, no Hitler, no Holocaust, no Holocaust, no Holocaust denial, no Holocaust denial, no hate speech...... seems the problem was created by Germany electing Hitler. 🧐
First, they came for the Holocaust deniers...
Biden State Department Only Offers ‘Free Speech’ Grants to Far-Left Activists
https://amgreatness.com/2023/02/06/biden-state-department-only-offers-free-speech-grants-to-far-left-activists/