Why Hate Speech Laws Backfire

Here’s a brutal irony about regulating hate speech: Such laws often end up hurting the very people they are supposed to protect.

That’s one of the central lessons in Jacob Mchangama’s important new book, Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media. Mchangama heads up the Danish think tank Justitia. He’s worried about a proposal that would make hate speech a crime under European Union (EU) law and give bureaucrats in Brussels sweeping powers to prosecute people spewing venom at religious and ethnic minorities, members of the LGBT+ community, women, and others. 

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13,000 people sign petition demanding Trudeau be charged with inciting hatred

A petition demanding Justin Trudeau be charged with inciting hatred has gone viral. The petition is directed at David Lametti, the Attorney General of Canada, and demands criminal charges be laid against the prime minister. The creator of the petition, an anonymous individual, states that Trudeau’s comments have left them fearing for their safety. The petition adds: “these egregious statements were made for the purpose of promoting hatred and violence against an identifiable group, specifically; individuals who have not received any or all Covid-19 vaccination doses.”

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Washington Post article finds most of “hate speech” detected on Facebook is anti-white and anti-male

After a long discussion about how there are posts and/or comments on Facebook that were racist or expressed bigotry toward minorities and those hosting non-heterosexual biases, the Post article noted that there was an issue because most of the hate speech caught by Facebook’s algorithms caught anti-white or anti-male hate speech.

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‘Super polluters’: the top 10 publishers denying the climate crisis on Facebook

Ten publishers are responsible for 69% of digital climate change denial content on Facebook, a new study from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has found. The outlets, which the report labels the “toxic ten”, include several conservative websites in the US, as well as Russian state media.

BCF didn’t make the list. Sorry. We’ll try harder.

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Jagmeet Singh says regulating online speech is “government’s responsibility”

Speaking to reporters Wednesday night after the French leaders’ debate in Gatineau, Que., Singh said existing hate speech laws are not sufficiently preventing radicalization, though he didn’t explain at what point he thinks protected speech becomes “hate speech.”

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With Censorship Push, Justin Trudeau & Jagmeet Singh Are Trying To Criminalize Free Expression & Silence Opponents

Unfortunately, many Canadians seem reluctant to comprehend the consequences of this anti-freedom, anti-democratic agenda.

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Justin Trudeau isn’t the progressive leader he thinks he is

It came as no surprise to me to see activists ‘celebrating’ Canada Day by setting fire to churches and toppling statues of Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria, while chanting, ‘No pride in genocide.’

Canada has managed to cultivate a culture that is simultaneously self-hating and self-righteous. We have no pride in being Canadian. Yet we are confident we are better than everyone else.

h/t Marvin

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“C-36 is the legislation of cancel culture”: Ezra Levant on Liberal “hate speech” bill

The Liberal government’s Bill C-36 would let the Canadian Human Rights Commission prosecute people for online speech, and would also give courts the power to take away liberty over fear someone might commit a hate-motivated offence. Former human rights commission defendant Ezra Levant joined True North’s Andrew Lawton to discuss Bill C-36, which Ezra says is the “legislation of cancel culture.”

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Liberals introduce bill to ̷f̷i̷g̷h̷t̷ ̷o̷n̷l̷i̷n̷e̷ ̷h̷a̷t̷e̷ criminalize dissent with Criminal Code amendments

The Liberals have introduced a bill to tackle online hate by amending Canada’s Criminal Code and Canadian Human Rights Act.

Bill C-36 would allow a person to appear before a provincial court, with the Attorney General’s consent, if the person fears that another will commit an offence “motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other similar factor.”


It’s Section 13 with a Hatey Face.

If passed then pointing out that sectarian violence, honour killings, the murder of apostates and gays along with all the other ways Islam enriches the world will make you a criminal.

Some, who should know better, believe this law will prevent or at least punish those who vilify Israel as an apartheid state etc.

The gatekeepers won’t allow that to happen. Instead this dangerous legislation will be used to enforce sharia law. Dissenting opinions deemed objectionable such as criticism of multiculturalism and immigration policy will be silenced based on the whims of the anointed.

Your right to free speech will be the collateral damage of this abusive law and make no mistake that was the intention all along.

We are fucked no?

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Canadians need to step up to tackle online hate — even with ‘crazy uncles’, says expert

“I think Canadians need to step up in a way that’s real,” said Mohammed Hashim, executive director of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, in an interview with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson.

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Why Do the Liberals Love Hate Speech Laws?

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Pentagon Aims To Partner With ADL And SPLC, Spy On Military Members For ‘Extremism’

The ADL has been at the forefront of internet censorship and criminalizing speech as “hate” while the disgraced SPLC is best known for aggressive fundraising and compiling a “hate map” of “extremist” Christians and conservatives which left-wing extremists use as a hit list.

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