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If someone steps up on a soap box in the U.S. and exhorts a crowd to go round up all the Muslims and burn down their houses ……. how long would it be before you think that guy is looking through some bars?
Implying that people in the U.K. or anywhere else in the free world can be jailed for merely expressing an opinion contrary to popular belief or political expediency is not being honest when attempting to show 1st amendment rights in the U.S. being superior to all others. In practical terms, they are not.
I will not be jailed and fined in the US for offering opinions on Muhammad that may offend Muslims.
The issue Phil is who is defining hate speech. Once you go down that road you no longer have the freedom of speech because the legality of your opinions or views are being defined by someone else.
Yep, and if they don't agree nor like what you say, they can label it "Hate Speech" and have you jailed. Nice, huh? That's what they Left wants here. That is what Political Correctness and the concept of hate speech is all about. Punishing and removing those in which the LEFT disagrees.
Specifically what constraints does the US press have?
Not asked of me, but you would have had had your answer if you had looked around the website. The U.S. page there: https://rsf.org/en/united-states
The U.S. page refers to the U.S. Freedom Tracker, a database of SPECIFIC press freedom incidents in the U.S. - “everything from arrests of journalists and the seizure of their equipment to interrogations at the U.S. border and physical attacks.”
Not asked of me, but you would have had had your answer if you had looked around the website. The U.S. page there: https://rsf.org/en/united-states
The U.S. page refers to the U.S. Freedom Tracker, a database of SPECIFIC press freedom incidents in the U.S. - “everything from arrests of journalists and the seizure of their equipment to interrogations at the U.S. border and physical attacks.”
Specifically what are they citing that concerns you the most about government interference with what journalists are publishing.
Now we have to be specific while you and others are suggesting hate speech laws in other countries are denying freedom of speech?
Fighting words and offensive speech
Main article: Fighting words
A Westboro Baptist Church protest was the subject of an "offensive speech" Supreme Court case in Snyder v. Phelps (2010)
In Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942), the Supreme Court held that speech is unprotected if it constitutes "fighting words".[31] Fighting words, as defined by the Court, is speech that "tend[s] to incite an immediate breach of the peace" by provoking a fight, so long as it is a "personally abusive [word] which, when addressed to the ordinary citizen, is, as a matter of common knowledge, inherently likely to provoke a violent reaction".[32] Additionally, such speech must be "directed to the person of the hearer" and is "thus likely to be seen as a 'direct personal insult'".[33][34]
“True threats of violence” that are directed at a person or group of persons that have the intent of placing the target at risk of bodily harm or death are generally unprotected.[35] However, there are several exceptions. For example, the Supreme Court has held that "threats may not be punished if a reasonable person would understand them as obvious hyperbole", he writes.[36][37] Additionally, threats of "social ostracism" and of "politically motivated boycotts" are constitutionally protected.[38]
The first para contains a reference to "offensive speech" that does indeed allow for exactly the same type of prosectution that happened in Austria.
The Second para details the type of situation for those two U.S. teens that any court in the land should have determined as "hyperbole" but since there's been so many school shooting etc. in the U.S. …. heightened sensitivity is allowing for exceptions to common sense to occur.
Goalposts - - moving.
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