I’ve written about free speech a bit on this site. It’s a subject I am passionate about and I think we should all have the right of freedom of expression no matter where we live. Sadly, we’re a long way for this, what I consider and essential freedom, to be implemented everywhere.
Imagine waking up one morning, and discovering that the content you posted on your blog, your YouTube account, or any other social media where you have an account, has been blocked because someone, somewhere, considered that specific content offensive to them.
I’ve always been interested in the US obsession with prosecuting Julia Assange. Yes, I know that Wikileaks have in the past published information it has received that has embarrassed or comprised national security of the US. What though is this prosecution based upon?
What exactly constitutes hate speech? I’ve wondered about this for several years and speaking with friends and colleagues, I can’t come up with a specific definition. If someone offends me in any way, is that hate speech? If I wrote a tweet about some religious group or political group that I dislike, is that hate speech?
As of this writing, I find that there are 29 countries that have enacted laws that prohibit hate speech. These laws vary somewhat country to country but prohibt their citizens, in general, from using insults of any kind against another group based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.
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