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I'm confused. I thought The Free Press was opposed to hate speech directed at Jews on our best campuses and across the country. Is The Free Press truly on the side of protecting the speech it hates, or only the speech it doesn't dislike as much? Nat Hentoff and the ACLU have been for protecting all hate speech, including antisemitistic speech. All praise to Bari for printing the great Nadine Strossen's piece on how antisemitic speech is fully protected by the Constitution. But will The Free Speech fight "to the death" to protect antisemitic speech, which I hate as no doubt the wonderful Jews Hentoff and Strossen have? To me, one of the great moments in our Constitutional history was the ACLU's victory for the American Nazi march in Skokie decades ago. I totally oppose American Nazis and antisemities and white supremacists in general. That said, nothing is more important in America than freedom of speech and expression.

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No freedom under the U.S. Constitution is absolute. That is true for freedom of expression, just as it should be true for the right to bear arms. The free speech exception is screaming "fire in the theater." The is speech that can cause harm to others. It would be disingenuous not to acknowledge that much of what former Pres. Trump says teeters right on the edge of this exception.

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Only actions are true crimes. Turning a thought into crime is the action of an authoritarian grasping for power.

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This is heart breaking. I think one of the reasons that people in the west are so depressed and anxious is because they lack gratitude for all the things that they have. They lack gratitude for the opportunities and freedoms that they are afforded because of where they were born. If people returned to the ideals of the west and fought for the rights that allow us to succeed then all these issues would begin to clear up.

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Rupa nails it again.

This should be nailed to the doors of the Capitol Building and the Whitehouse.

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"Would criminalize the act of “inciting hatred” against individuals or groups based on specified “protected characteristics” like race, nationality, religion, and sexual orientation."

They left off the unspoken part ............ Unless they are white or a Jew.

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As long as free-speech carve-outs remain red-coded (in the case of "porn") or blue-coded (in the case of "hate speech"), this will continue as long as people continue to join Team Red or Team Blue and then accept their respective doctrines as holy writ instead of thinking for their effin' selves.

Political parties have become completely toxic, and the first part of the body to die is the capacity for independent thought.

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I love everything about this story. Thanks for sharing it!!

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Trudeau is blatantly corrupt, and the worst of them all. He is a puppet for the WEF, Aga Khan et al. Their sole purpose is to tear down Canadian freedoms, and prosperity, in order to hand Canada over to unelected WEF handlers.

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In short, anything that contradicts the prevailing group-think dogma will be considered hate speech.

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Tell me, when does Canada indict Bari Weiss and The Free Press staffers for hate speech, then petition the US to extradite them? A willing US government extradites them since they are considered political enemies of the current administration. Bari and the Staff are then put through the wringer of a foreign justice system, with no help or support of the country they are citizens of.

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The Australian government is also in the process of legislating a censorship bill that has most of the characteristics above. In theory AU has a right to freedom of communication about government and political matters.

Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023

https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/department/media/publications/communications-legislation-amendment-combatting-misinformation-and-disinformation-bill-2023

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Hi everyone at the Free Press! (aka The Democratic Party Rehabilitation Project)

Here's an editorial suggestion for the title of this piece:

"Leftist governments threaten free speech globally"

WHY NOT CALL THEM OUT??

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Rupa, thanks for another excellent piece.

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Look into modern Russia, Iran, North Korea etc. Isn't it enough evidence of what lack of Freedom of Speech does?

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Brava Rupa!

🥇🏅🎖️

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