• TheFogan@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    Hate speach won’t only speech that might incite someone to commit violence.

    Expected result

    “Mexicans are all rapists, and murderers and are harming the fabric of our society” – Protected free speach

    “that’s really hateful to say about a whole class of people that have all walks of life in them just like us” – Potentially inciting violence

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    7 months ago

    Attorney General Pam Bondi tells Axios her office is not prosecuting or investigating anyone for alleged hate speech, only for speech that she says unlawfully incites violence.

    That’s what they’ve already supposed to have been doing. Speech that unlwafully incites violence is already illegal.

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    7 months ago

    So…. Lemme understand this. Outright saying crazy hateful stuff is hunky dory, but correctly attributing/quoting those statements is potentially punishable at the federal level?

    …the fuck?

    They’re all mixed up, like pasta primavera.

  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Hey Pammy, you know that if you selectively target people for investigation/prosecution for other things based on their speech, you are still violating their constitutional rights, right? First amendment retaliation is adverse actions taken to deter or punish the exercise of your first amendment rights. You don’t have to prosecute the speech itself to violate the constitution if you are specifically targeting legal action against people because of their speech. It still chills free speech.

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    7 months ago

    Fucking LOL!

    Yeah. I believe that exactly as much as everything else you and your fascist compatriots have said.

  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    This is exactly what liberals wanted when they passed the earliest hate speech legislation in the 90’s.
    Truly a leopards eating my face moment.