Please never again tell me I focus too much on freedom of speech. A man just got convicted of making a tasteless joke.
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The court did no accept that excuse. His girlfriend would have been no less annoyed (if that was his aim) without YouTube publication. If I made a video promoting child rape, would you support my right to disseminate it?
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You don't an excuse for filming yourself pranking your girlfriend, no matter how distastefully. He could perhaps lose friends but not be prosecuted. Same for jokes about paedophilia, yes, tho I wouldn't want to hear them.
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Not just a joke though, is it? It’s incitement. And it’s not in private. It’s taking advantage of a public platform. What did he expect to gain other than self-publicity and stirring up hatred?
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Incitement to what? Other people now pointing out to me, it really doesn't matter that it was a joke. It matters that someone got arrested for being offensive. We must defend the right to say things that we find appalling if we want to be able to say things others find appalling.pic.twitter.com/Lns9f0mFn5
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Are you saying there is no limit whatsoever to freedom of speech or are we just disagreeing about the level at which it is set?
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No limit to the free expression of ideas/opinions, no. Even really horrible ones must be allowed to be spoken.
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At risk of invoking Godwin’s Law, so Hitler was OK until he personally ordered the first Jew to be killed?
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He wasn't OK, no. But slippery slopes don't work. People have to be proposing a threat before we can move against them. Until then, we can argue and monitor and counteract.
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