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EU ministers approve anti-hate speech video rules

Hollerithevo

Free speech is for governments

No commercial enterprise has to support free speech, and free speech is regulated by governments and always has been. Have any of you watched hate videos? Neo-Nazi anti-Semitic videos? Videos taken of young women and (and young men) by vicious bullies whose aim is to destroy these young people's lives? There is a difference between being an obnoxious loudmouth and going in for the kill. We know that someone's life can be ruined because he or she is crippled from being beat up. A social beating is just as severe. 'Assault and battery' -- 'assault' is not the fist in the face, it is the attack on one's person that is assault; 'battery' is the actual physical blow. Both are crimes.

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