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> you have no right to denigrate your fellow man

Of course you do. Can you imagine what the world would be like if the government gave itself the power and created the bureaucratic machinery to stop people denigrating their fellow man? It would be a dystopian nightmare.



Defamation is illegal in plenty of non-dystopian countries.


There's a difference between defamation and denigration.

You're allowed to criticize anything, but if you knowingly publish lies, especially maliciously, then it crosses the line.


There is a difference, but there are countries where it is illegal despite it being true. Sweden is an example of this.


I don't see a government censoring this book. Is it illegal to have this book? Should I now force barnes and noble to sell my radical insurrectionist anarchist zines? They are gagging my right to free speech!


You seem to have responded to the wrong comment. Either that or you decided my comment was a good opportunity to spew some irrelevant gibberish.


Would be?


There's a difference between "you shouldn't do hate speech" and some sort of 1984/V-for-Vendetta mechanism to ensure that nobody ever does hate speech. Laws and ethics are not the same thing.




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