Hope J
Hope J
Aug 25, 2017 · 1 min read

Canada has restrictions on free speech ( https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/canadas-law-on-hate-speech-is-the-embodiment-of-compromise/article22520419/comments/ ). They are not a totalitarian country.

Germany seems to have strong hate speech restrictions, but they still allow for a neo-Nazi march in Berlin (albeit with strong restrictions: no chanting, no Nazi symbolism).

I don’t know the details of either country, and undoubtedly they have problems (as do we in the US) but they are certainly not the totalitarian places you fear would happen without absolute free speech. I’m happy with the US system, but I also don’t see proof that measured hate-speech laws necessarily lead down a road to totalitarianism.

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