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by bigfudge
62 days ago
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Really not many people outside far right proponents of hate speech (and more recently MAGA shills) have been complaining about free speech in Europe. Yes, there are laws against holocaust denial for specific historical reasons. The UK also had regulations on some Irish republican organisations access to TV, but not other forms of expression. And yes most European jurisdictions accept that speech can cause harm and try to balance this against free speech. But there is really no case that nonviolent political speech is -- in practice -- discriminated against in EU and UK. On the IT and AI services: Europe hasn't really failed to compete in innovation, as much as scale of operation. That might change if we have a security imperative to protect our own markets for these things against an increasingly hostile US. |
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The fact that other Europeans aren't complaining about this makes it worse, because it implies that the society condones this behavior.
I'm sorry, but in no sensible society should the police raid someone's home because he called the deputy chancellor (think vice president) a dumbass on Twitter ("dummkopf"). Or more recently: police started investigating a man for calling Merz (the chancellor) Pinocchio:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/german-police-probe-face...
>but not other forms of expression.
France - fined for calling Macron a "scumbag":
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/article/2023/04/23/french...
UK - teenager sentenced for a "hate crime" for posting rap lyrics on Instagram:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921
This applies to other European countries too.