Reddit has told the Irish media regulator that it is not covered by the new Online Safety Code as its jurisdiction is in the Netherlands.
  • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1620·
    1 year ago

    Who would you have define hate speech in the US? SCOTUS?

    Many citizens may agree on the definition, but I wouldn’t trust our government to draw those lines.

    • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      201·
      1 year ago

      Many countries have working anti-hate speech laws. It’s not really a big problem for freedom of speech in those countries.

      • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldEnglish
        144·
        1 year ago

        Those countries don’t have partisan polarization propaganda preschoolers writing their legislation.

        • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          While often better than in the US, you shouldn’t overestimate the state of democracy in other countries.

          A lot of the far right parties in Europe are successfully copying the polarization tactics from the US.