@maxdancona,
Izzy wrote:Time and time again you’ve been asked to find serious problems with countries that do not allow hate speech to be afforded protection of free speech.
All we’ve had are vague warnings and nothing substantial.
You wish to spread hate and lies and believe there’s something good about that.
If addressing you on this thread. I’m not starting to run around the houses with you.
There are two options.
1. Free speech... where the government allows any speech to take place no matter how offensive or unpopular.
2. Not Free speech... where the government makes a distinction between
acceptable speech and
unacceptable speech and then regulates or restricts the latter.
Any government can say "you can have free speech as long as we don't think it is offensive". That isn't free speech by definition. Once you start saying "this speech is OK, but this speech is unacceptable" then you have taken away free speech.
The real question Izzy is asking is whether taking away free speech has ever caused harm. Of course, harm is subjective, some people don't think that banning rights for LGBT individuals is harm.
It isn't that long ago in Izzy's country that you couldn't publicly defend the rights of two men or two women to love each other.
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