A vegan gets a 7-month suspended prison sentence for posting on social media that she is glad that a butcher got killed. I was surprised and saddened to see people I know supporting this decision. Note that she did not call for violence. She simply voiced her opinion after the fact.
https://www.theallineed.com/news/20180330/a-french-court-condemns-a-vegan-woman-who-celebrated-the-death-of-a-butcher-in-a-terrorist-attack/
Freedom of speech is dead and "thought-crimes" are taken seriously, and MOST PEOPLE ARE CHEERING. Well, George Orwell tried to warn us. His work 1984 got popular enough, but somehow it still failed in much of the "free" (ha!) world. I still have some hope for the United States...one of the last bastions of free speech written in law, though corporations are doing their part to choke the life out of it on the ground.
We now know that people can be banned from the UK or imprisoned in the UK for simply stating facts that run counter to the mythical established narrative. We know that people can be prosecuted for speech in France. We know that Milo Yiannopoulos and Tommy Robinson have lifetime bans from Twitter, but the official pages of Hamas (a recognized terrorist group in both the US and EU). The Muslim Brotherhood is verified. No matter. But an offensive effeminate gay man with a black husband is beyond the pale.
Count Dankula is being sent to prison in Scotland because he taught his dog to do the Nazi salute and respond to an offensive anti-Semitic phrase because "[his] girlfriend is always ranting and raving about how cute and adorable her wee dog is, and so I thought that I would turn him into the least cute thing that I could think of". Yes, this man - for this crime - will be rotting in a prison cell.
Oh, well... They were mean. They hurt your feelings. What has Hamas ever done? Priorities, people! We can't just give anyone the freedom of speech. They may say something that we don't like! That's why we need to shut down any speech that makes light of death, like this:
"I’m glad Billy Graham is dead"
http://www.steveheimoff.com/index.php/2018/03/01/im-glad-billy-graham-is-dead/
String this guy up! Oh, wait... It's about Billy Graham...a Christian. And white, too. This is a tough one. ...Haha... Not really. Of course, this blogger will not be brought up on charges. He's saying things that we agree with.
To be honest, my first choice is to have freedom of speech that covers everything except for death threats and realistic calls for violence. As they say, no PHYSICAL harm, no foul. If that is impossible, then I will have to revert to my back-up hope...namely that all of these one-sided hypocrites who defend imprisoning people just for saying the wrong thing soon have the tables turned and let the wrong thing slip out of their mouths and then find out the hard way why unpopular and offensive speech should be defended.
https://www.theallineed.com/news/20180330/a-french-court-condemns-a-vegan-woman-who-celebrated-the-death-of-a-butcher-in-a-terrorist-attack/
Freedom of speech is dead and "thought-crimes" are taken seriously, and MOST PEOPLE ARE CHEERING. Well, George Orwell tried to warn us. His work 1984 got popular enough, but somehow it still failed in much of the "free" (ha!) world. I still have some hope for the United States...one of the last bastions of free speech written in law, though corporations are doing their part to choke the life out of it on the ground.
We now know that people can be banned from the UK or imprisoned in the UK for simply stating facts that run counter to the mythical established narrative. We know that people can be prosecuted for speech in France. We know that Milo Yiannopoulos and Tommy Robinson have lifetime bans from Twitter, but the official pages of Hamas (a recognized terrorist group in both the US and EU). The Muslim Brotherhood is verified. No matter. But an offensive effeminate gay man with a black husband is beyond the pale.
Count Dankula is being sent to prison in Scotland because he taught his dog to do the Nazi salute and respond to an offensive anti-Semitic phrase because "[his] girlfriend is always ranting and raving about how cute and adorable her wee dog is, and so I thought that I would turn him into the least cute thing that I could think of". Yes, this man - for this crime - will be rotting in a prison cell.
Oh, well... They were mean. They hurt your feelings. What has Hamas ever done? Priorities, people! We can't just give anyone the freedom of speech. They may say something that we don't like! That's why we need to shut down any speech that makes light of death, like this:
"I’m glad Billy Graham is dead"
http://www.steveheimoff.com/index.php/2018/03/01/im-glad-billy-graham-is-dead/
String this guy up! Oh, wait... It's about Billy Graham...a Christian. And white, too. This is a tough one. ...Haha... Not really. Of course, this blogger will not be brought up on charges. He's saying things that we agree with.
To be honest, my first choice is to have freedom of speech that covers everything except for death threats and realistic calls for violence. As they say, no PHYSICAL harm, no foul. If that is impossible, then I will have to revert to my back-up hope...namely that all of these one-sided hypocrites who defend imprisoning people just for saying the wrong thing soon have the tables turned and let the wrong thing slip out of their mouths and then find out the hard way why unpopular and offensive speech should be defended.
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