Paul Coleman, a British attorney who's had a front row seat to this concerning trend, explains the origin of these hate speech laws and give his assessment about the future of free speech.
So hate speech is speech that is hateful and so forth.
Every country in Europe has adopted criminal hate speech provisions.
Coleman: We have within Europe about 800,000,000 people and, obviously, the speech that these people create each and every day is huge, particularly when we think of the digital age and we think of how much speech is uploaded every minute, every second to YouTube, to Twitter, Facebook, and so forth.
The problem, of course, is who gets to decide what falls in which category and where do we draw the line? And these are the two major questions when it comes to free speech and hate speech that are unanswerable.
"Can you put these into two categories? One being what was upheld as being free speech and one that was prosecuted as hate speech?" And no one has every successfully divided that list correctly.
It's the idea that yes, we recognize that speech can be painful, yes, we recognize that speech can be offensive and insulting, but the idea of going down the route of censorship is far worse.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/08/16/the-rise-of-hate-speech-policing-in-europe/
So hate speech is speech that is hateful and so forth.
Every country in Europe has adopted criminal hate speech provisions.
Coleman: We have within Europe about 800,000,000 people and, obviously, the speech that these people create each and every day is huge, particularly when we think of the digital age and we think of how much speech is uploaded every minute, every second to YouTube, to Twitter, Facebook, and so forth.
The problem, of course, is who gets to decide what falls in which category and where do we draw the line? And these are the two major questions when it comes to free speech and hate speech that are unanswerable.
"Can you put these into two categories? One being what was upheld as being free speech and one that was prosecuted as hate speech?" And no one has every successfully divided that list correctly.
It's the idea that yes, we recognize that speech can be painful, yes, we recognize that speech can be offensive and insulting, but the idea of going down the route of censorship is far worse.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/08/16/the-rise-of-hate-speech-policing-in-europe/
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