At least for me its very difficult to make the line between preventing hate speech and allowing the freedom. I’m thinking to launch a lemmy instance, but the targeted audience is very sensitive to religion topics, and i’m sure if i allow it, this could lead to hate speech at some point and may fuel violence. Also, from my prospective, i just want my audience find new good things far from porn, porn sites are a lot, and i don`t want to mix it with other topics that can very constructive.

So please tell me your opinion, if banning these 2 topics can effect the freedom of speech.

  • CHEF-KOCH
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    02 years ago

    Hate would be for example, slandering others, which is also explained in my Wikipedia link under limitations of free speech because causes hate and the repercussions that comes with it, as you say, lychings etc.

    • @DPUGT2
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      12 years ago

      Hate would be for example, slandering others, w

      I get it that this is your definition. But it’s defective and misrepresentative. Still, I replied with your definition in mind.

      under limitations of free speech

      Freedom of speech as a concept has no limits, and at least within US law, has no limits there either. You have to go back to quotes taken out of context from ancient Supreme Court rulings that have effectively been overturned (and were later retracted by the justice quoted) to think otherwise.

      The trouble of course if you just don’t like freedom of speech. But the public is enamored with it and they romanticize it, so you can’t publicly be honest about not liking it. Thus the mental gymnastics that there are “limitations”.

      because causes hate and the repercussions that comes with it, as you say, lychings etc.

      The opposite is true. The lynchings happen when no one can talk about it. When you shut up people who were only ever going to mouth off, you inevitably spur some to take it farther and to venture into action.

      But that takes a few years, and in the meantime you can pretend that you’ve “cleaned up hatred”.

      • CHEF-KOCH
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        Freedom of speech as a concept has no limits, and at least within US law, has no limits there either.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech#Limitations

        Everything in the universe, including universe itself has limits.

        just don’t like freedom of speech.

        Cant take you serious, I am out of the discussion, there is no one on earth who does not like free speech, it is about misinformation and other variables, mentioned above and e.g. misinformation is not spreading freedom, it is to deceive others, on purpose or by accident.