Digestive skrev 2024-08-31 16:10:54 följande:
Jag tycker att det mest blir konstigt då det inte finns någon motsvarande lag i USA vars grundlagar förbjuder det samma. Sverige får inte ens utreda dessa brott i USA/på plattformar som är stationerade i USA.
Det finns inte en chans att den eventuella lagen kommer att påminna om Sveriges lag om hets mot folkgrupp, inte ens i det minsta. Varför jag har svårt att se relevansen - även om jag kan förstå vad du menar i ett imaginärt sammanhang.
Rasism av den specifika typen 'låga förväntningar' har inte letat sig in i lagen på samma sätt där borta. I USA förväntas en medborgare kunna hantera 'What's on peoples mind.' även om huden inte är blek.
Jag tror att du kommer att bli besviken om det är hets mot folkgrupp som känns relevant för dig i sammanhanget.
Online censorship in the UK has led to far more arrests than the first Red Scare
Thanks to our First Amendment, American victims of Cancel Culture are shielded from being arrested for their speech ? but that?s not the case everywhere. In Britain, the story is quite different. During the age of Cancel Culture there, the number of speech-related arrests in Britain have reached astounding numbers.
In 2003, the United Kingdom passed the Communications Act, Section 127 of which targets speech that ?cause[s] annoyance, inconvenience, or needless anxiety to another? online, as well as posts that are ?grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene, or menacing manner.?
In practice, that provision has resulted in a startling number of arrests: 6,150 from just 2015 and 2016. That far outstrips the number of arrests in the first Red Scare ? in a country that has roughly half as many people as the United States did in 1920. This works out to roughly nine people a day arrested ?for posting allegedly offensive messages online.?
Worse yet, British police track ?non-crime hate incidents.? In essence, this means anyone who takes offense to someone?s speech about a protected characteristic can report the speaker to the police. Horrifyingly, guidance for police states that ?the victim does not have to justify or provide evidence of their belief, and police officers and staff should not directly challenge this perception.?
From 2014 to 2019, almost 120,000 such incidents were cataloged across the U.K.
We should all be hugely grateful that our First Amendment protects us from that fate here ? but let?s not forget that many people argue America should follow the lead of Europe in terms of speech codes. This must not happen, and the fallout in Britain is a perfect cautionary tale as to why.
greglukianoff.substack.com/p/online-censorship-in-the-uk-has-led