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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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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There is a limit to freedom of speech then? The level of the physical (mental?) threat posed by what is said. This is a very hard line to define so, as I said earlier, we are differing only on exactly where to draw it. A highly subjective judgement!
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By freedom of speech, I am referring specifically to the free exchange of ideas. Threatening people, breaking confidentiality, advocating violence and other harm done with mouths are rightly illegal.
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Yes the key word there is advocating. Had the guy insinuated that gassing Jews is a good thing then fine. I would draw the line there I think. But he didn’t. It was clearly about drak humour. Distasteful but still a joke.
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