meta’s new rules specifically allowed e.g. calling homosexuality a mental illness, which is a crime in brazil. this is the kind of thing the supreme court questioned meta about
Until Bolsonaro or someone similar is elected and starts enforcing a fact checking you disagree with.
Defending/Relativizing the Holodomor(, which didn’t happened only in Ukraine back then,) is forbidden in some countries, and it’s not hard to imagine hate speech laws forbidding the debunking of the “uyghur genocide”, as some were censored back then.
The democrats made a mistake in using these laws against Donald Trump, but we(sterners) will probably end up controlling the information on the Internet as we did in the legacy/mainstream medias.
as if the dominant class didn’t have the power to legally persecute the left without hatespeech laws
look, i really don’t want to be having this conversation right now, but, with all due respect, your whole stance here smells like typical us-american freezepeach-ism. not that brazil’s supreme court is now suddenly the workers’ court (it isn’t), but it makes no sense to be agaisnt the criminalization of hatespeech when it’s specifically against racist and homophobic hatespeech which doesn’t affect us in the slightest. if bolsonaro wants to criminalize communism and he manages to get the votes to do so, he will, regardless of current hatespeech legistlation
meta’s new rules specifically allowed e.g. calling homosexuality a mental illness, which is a crime in brazil. this is the kind of thing the supreme court questioned meta about
Until Bolsonaro or someone similar is elected and starts enforcing a fact checking you disagree with.
Defending/Relativizing the Holodomor(, which didn’t happened only in Ukraine back then,) is forbidden in some countries, and it’s not hard to imagine hate speech laws forbidding the debunking of the “uyghur genocide”, as some were censored back then.
The democrats made a mistake in using these laws against Donald Trump, but we(sterners) will probably end up controlling the information on the Internet as we did in the legacy/mainstream medias.
as if the dominant class didn’t have the power to legally persecute the left without hatespeech laws
look, i really don’t want to be having this conversation right now, but, with all due respect, your whole stance here smells like typical us-american freezepeach-ism. not that brazil’s supreme court is now suddenly the workers’ court (it isn’t), but it makes no sense to be agaisnt the criminalization of hatespeech when it’s specifically against racist and homophobic hatespeech which doesn’t affect us in the slightest. if bolsonaro wants to criminalize communism and he manages to get the votes to do so, he will, regardless of current hatespeech legistlation
Then i won’t insist, but i thought about you when i saw this recent law in Pakistan, opposed by journalists, this is what i’m worried about :
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-senate-passes-controversial-social-media-bill-6125f7cf9186714cbedc9a7489a52200
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistani-journalists-rally-against-law-regulating-social-media-2025-01-28