It should also include “disinformation”, “hate speech” and “conspiracy theory”.
No I’m pretty sure those are actual problems. I do not believe, for example, that people with megaphones should be free to tell the masses that Donald Trump won the 2016 election.
Not every “conspiracy theory” is something stupid and made up. Have you not heard of MK Ultra?
There’s a good chance some governments are still doing stuff like that, and I’m sure if you found some evidence of something like that and started talking about it, you would be silenced on any major platform because of these laws.
Also, if someone posts something online you think is dumb, do you really think it should just be deleted? Do you think that helps anyone?
But hate speech is never good, is it?
What is hate speech?
Stuff like “gay people are unnatural and should be corrected” and “drag queens/trans people/[insert bogeyman here] are pedophiles coming for our children” and “n***ers oughta be whipped”
My point is that it’s a moving target that will be abused. The government should not and thankfully cannot regulate speech based on the grounds of “hate”. Hate is also not illegal. (At least in the US)
For example, Christians are taught to love the sinner but hate the sin. Homosexuality, drag queens, transgenderism are sins in Christianity. With your new law Christians are now censored because their worldview disagrees with yours.
Whoever has the right to define that term has immense power and that power will be abused just like the other labels in the meme.
They aren’t censored for believing those things are sinful. They’re being punished for trying to enforce their views on what a person should be on people who aren’t them. The minute I start having to care about what the Christian sitting next to me thinks is sinful because he might hurt me if I don’t, he loses the right to free speech, you get me?
