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by teitoklien 868 days ago
Why do you think anyone reserves the right to block funding to what gov determines as “hate speech”. If someone wants to pay for hate speech they can anyways do it right now with donations.

Ideas like this quickly devolves into gov marking any message that criticizes them as “Hate speech”. Democracies like Japan, to an extent Singapore do that already, officially by law.

Nations like Canada, India, Israel, Hungary, do it indirectly in unofficial but rampant ways.

Speech is not a crime, listening to hate speech and starting to be unjustly hateful towards people is a crime.

Punish the people who discriminate and act on the advice of hate speech. Do not punish speech, or else soon, you’ll get confused when gov starts changing what “hate” means.
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repelsteeltje 868 days ago
> Speech is not a crime, listening to hate speech and starting to be unjustly hateful towards people is a crime.

I'm confused. You start off talking about merrits of blocking payment related to hate speech (or lack thereof). And then you point to the danger of government deciding what "hate" means.

That is all good and well, but to get back to the original issue - I'm wondering if you feel paying money to people spreading hate speech amounts to a crime or not?

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pelorat 868 days ago
Unfettered speech can lead to a cult following which, as we here in Europe know very well, can be extremely fucking dangerous. Which is precisely why some speech will land you in prison.
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RamblingCTO 868 days ago
Yes, exactly. We wouldn't have had hitler if we'd had hate speech laws back in the days!11!1
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mardifoufs 868 days ago
Germany had plenty of hate speech laws back when Hitler was elected. Still the question that remains here would be: which government gets to decide what's hate speech? Like even if we could have a payment webAPI that could "block" hate speech (not sure how that would be possible), do we go by the standards of the US? Europe? Russia? How would it work concretely?

Trying to discuss the implications of hate speech for something that would be international is asinine imo, the term basically means everything and nothing (when used in a global context)

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