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by gambiting 2622 days ago
I disagree - some lies shouldn't be protected speech. Where I'm from it's illegal to say that Holocaust didn't happen and for a good reason.
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According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_against_Holocaust_denial#...

Noam Chomsky has this to say:

"It seems to me something of a scandal that it is even necessary to debate these issues two centuries after Voltaire defended the right of free expression for views he detested. It is a poor service to the memory of the victims of the holocaust to adopt a central doctrine of their murderers."