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Originally Posted by Pierre
Hate speech is a terrible term and far to broad to legislated for, and I would welcome any action to remove such laws.
Freedom of speech should be absolute. Obvious safeguards such as Incitement to violence should of course be included, but they should also be only if the threat is real, targeted and imminent.
As it stands a broad tweet saying "I'm sick of these small boats, we should all go down to Dover and chuck them all back in the channel" sent out to your dozen followers on X, could see you arrested in present day UK.
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Absolute freedom of speech won't be absolute if it includes safeguards. That's contradictory. I think most people in the West would agree on freedom of speech with safeguards, as is the case in most Western nations.
Your argument is around what is incitement to violence and what isn't. I think context is another thing to bear in mind here, not just one sentence on its own.