From my perspective as a retired law enforcement officer who still keeps up with the laws, there are no "hate speech laws" on the books.
There are only laws that create punishment enhancement for crimes committed (actual over acts of violence or property damage) because of someone's race, religion, sex, or some other protected class.
There are no laws that concern "speech" with regard to "hate". The SCOTUS has struck down every one that has been tried. Such laws are simply not constitutional.
It is these hate speech laws that were struck down by the SCOTUS that provide the basis for all governments being denied the ability to control nearly all forms of speech in the first place.
Please take the time to watch this video and read this article and I think you'll then understand how all this evolved.
The hate speech laws do appear to be in effect in Canada, and certainly there are pretty strong hate speech laws in Europe.
In the USA I think the Ds are doing their now-normal approach: pass an unConstitutional Law planning that it'll take ~5 years to overthrow it, and as soon as it gets judged unConstitutional (and it most likely will be), they will be there with a new nearly identical law that, hey what a coincidence, we just passed last week.
Justice Delayed is Justice Denied.
But yes I do agree that all "Hate Speech" laws are, prima facie, unConstitutional. As is 90+% of what these fucktards pass.
Came here to write "Nice. Now do 'hate speech'."
We should have never allowed a single "hate speech" law to be passed.
From my perspective as a retired law enforcement officer who still keeps up with the laws, there are no "hate speech laws" on the books.
There are only laws that create punishment enhancement for crimes committed (actual over acts of violence or property damage) because of someone's race, religion, sex, or some other protected class.
There are no laws that concern "speech" with regard to "hate". The SCOTUS has struck down every one that has been tried. Such laws are simply not constitutional.
It is these hate speech laws that were struck down by the SCOTUS that provide the basis for all governments being denied the ability to control nearly all forms of speech in the first place.
Please take the time to watch this video and read this article and I think you'll then understand how all this evolved.
https://reason.com/video/2019/02/19/the-3-rules-of-hate-speech/
Will watch.
The hate speech laws do appear to be in effect in Canada, and certainly there are pretty strong hate speech laws in Europe.
In the USA I think the Ds are doing their now-normal approach: pass an unConstitutional Law planning that it'll take ~5 years to overthrow it, and as soon as it gets judged unConstitutional (and it most likely will be), they will be there with a new nearly identical law that, hey what a coincidence, we just passed last week.
Justice Delayed is Justice Denied.
But yes I do agree that all "Hate Speech" laws are, prima facie, unConstitutional. As is 90+% of what these fucktards pass.