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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was ready to say, "Wow, I guess I won't be going to Tunisia, even though that's on my bucket list", but now that I ve read the whole article, I think I'm good to go there still.

That guy was really dumb to do that. Yes, the punishment is harsh.  But, do you remember the case where that young man was caned simply for spitting gum on the street in Singapore? But that’s the law there and it applied equally to everybody.

When in Rome, people!  Just don’t tempt fate, that’s all.[/quote]

Wow. Some of you really will make excuses for anything. The law and what is just and moral are not the same thing. No one should die for a Facebook post, law or not. [/quote]

No one seems that concerned about the UK putting people in prison for Facebook posts. If people post racist things, they go to jail. I'd venture to say that most democrats support that. And if you support that, then you're okay with criminalizing speech in general, even if you balk at the death sentence. [/quote]

What about my comment would lead you to assume I'm okay with criminalizing speech? I don't think people should go to jail for saying racist crap on Facebook. I think they should get called an a$$hole to their face, and I won't talk when they get their a$$ kicked. But I do not support the State executing or failing people for speech. So stop it with your gotcha BS. This is wrong and you know it. [/quote]

Let me ask you something. If someone made a really racist tweet, do you think that is a crime, eg hate speech? It seems democrats commonly believe offensive speech ia criminal and that the government has an obligation to protect people from offensive or "harmful" speech (like vaccine skepticism, comments critical of transgender ideology etc). Democrats are completely okay with, for example, DHS giving guidelines to social media platforms about what speech should and shouldn't be allowed. Right? Or am I completely wrong here and you guys think conservative speech should be allowed on the internet now?[/quote]

Hate speech is only criminalized in the U.S. when it is an enhancement to another crime (ie., physical violence, arson)

You can state all the hate speech you want and the government can't punish you. You might be deplatformed by a private company, but you do not have a 1st Amendment right on a privately owned social media app.

The issue I'm finding in many of these UK cases is that they combine hate/"Un-Woke" speech with a call for violence. The UK authorities proactively act when it comes to calls for violence, even if its arguably written as a joke. [/quote]

HATE SPEECH DESERVES THE DEATH PENALTY.[/quote]

Well, yes that's what happens in place in Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Iran. If you hate the Regime, you get killed.

That's not happening in the UK or the US. [/quote]

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