RE: Double standards on freedom of speech
January 9, 2015 at 2:22 pm
(This post was last modified: January 9, 2015 at 2:23 pm by Dystopia.)
FatAndFaithless - There are crimes that directly criminalize speech - For example defamation, or psychological domestic violence that usually implies using one's speech to coerce and degrade the other part.
Secondly, a restriction is not censorship, all rights are restricted and restrict each other mutually. For example, the right to live is a lot more important than free speech - It is, it's in my constitution, because without life all other rights become effortlessly - If free speech is used to incentive people to take others lives, or to engage in violent acts of torture, physical aggression, etc, then my judgement as a law student is that free speech must be restricted for more important rights. Also, it's not the government or any government that decides, it's in the fucking constitution, this includes not only Portugal, but France, Germany, etc... Specially Germany.
Thirdly, what matters here is discussing where the line between what should be allowed and not stands. It's not going to change to say "Europe should do like the US" - The problem is that there are criminal acts I repulse compared to others I don't. For example, I certainly don't support burning a quran being illegal, or publicly criticizing a religion.
Secondly, a restriction is not censorship, all rights are restricted and restrict each other mutually. For example, the right to live is a lot more important than free speech - It is, it's in my constitution, because without life all other rights become effortlessly - If free speech is used to incentive people to take others lives, or to engage in violent acts of torture, physical aggression, etc, then my judgement as a law student is that free speech must be restricted for more important rights. Also, it's not the government or any government that decides, it's in the fucking constitution, this includes not only Portugal, but France, Germany, etc... Specially Germany.
Thirdly, what matters here is discussing where the line between what should be allowed and not stands. It's not going to change to say "Europe should do like the US" - The problem is that there are criminal acts I repulse compared to others I don't. For example, I certainly don't support burning a quran being illegal, or publicly criticizing a religion.
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