Part 1 (damn lj formatting)soleiltropiquesAugust 22 2018, 18:37:29 UTC
I was reading a news story recently about the fact that Zuckerberg didn't want to block or remove holocaust deniers from Facebook.(2) I've tried MANY times to report openly racist pages to them (I remember one what was spewing hate about indigenous people here in Canada) and they did nothing
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"The United States is almost alone among Western liberal democracies in not punishing what is called hate speech - oral or written messages that “incite hatred” against a person or group on the basis of their race, religion, sex, ethnicity or sexual orientation. Canada, Britain, Denmark, Germany and New Zealand have such laws, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights purports to require signatory nations to pass them. (...) In his engaging new book, “The Harm in Hate Speech,” the legal philosopher Jeremy Waldron urges Americans to reconsider that tradition
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Re: Part 2 (damn lj formatting)soleiltropiquesAugust 22 2018, 18:52:13 UTC
To finish what I meant to say...
(1) Sorry for flooding your comments, it's just that I agree SO MUCH with this.
(My personaly experience with trying to tell YouTube about misogynistic and racist and transphobic shit on their site was.... interesting: here is where I vented about what happened. (https://soleiltropiques.livejournal.com/139202.html)
(2) Allowing hate speech IMO, and doing nothing to counter it, means that we do nothing to protect those who are vulnerable to racist and other abuse. Because hate speech leads directly to hate CRIMES. (6, 7)
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That sucks, but I'm glad the cat is still alive!
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(From: 'The Harm in Hate Speech', by Jeremy Waldron: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/books/review/the-harm-in-hate-speech-by-jeremy-waldron.html)
"The United States is almost alone among Western liberal democracies in not punishing what is called hate speech - oral or written messages that “incite hatred” against a person or group on the basis of their race, religion, sex, ethnicity or sexual orientation. Canada, Britain, Denmark, Germany and New Zealand have such laws, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights purports to require signatory nations to pass them. (...) In his engaging new book, “The Harm in Hate Speech,” the legal philosopher Jeremy Waldron urges Americans to reconsider that tradition ( ... )
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(1) Sorry for flooding your comments, it's just that I agree SO MUCH with this.
(My personaly experience with trying to tell YouTube about misogynistic and racist and transphobic shit on their site was.... interesting: here is where I vented about what happened. (https://soleiltropiques.livejournal.com/139202.html)
(2) Allowing hate speech IMO, and doing nothing to counter it, means that we do nothing to protect those who are vulnerable to racist and other abuse. Because hate speech leads directly to hate CRIMES. (6, 7)
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6. https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-rise-of-hate-crimes-can-be-tied-directly-to-hateful-speech
7. https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/02/us/who-commits-hate-crimes/index.html
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