this post was submitted on 20 May 2023
-9 points (26.3% liked)

Privacy

31482 readers
773 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Related communities

Chat rooms

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, I don't consider hate speech to be an opinion. In the USA, in my country and presumably most countries, hate speech is a crime in itself.

[–] mariubrlu@mastodonapp.uk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Ephera @sovietsnake What's wrong with hate speech?

It allows you to expose incompetence at the establishment level. This way the incompetents would see themselves forced to improve. All the crises we are currently going through would miraculously be solved overnight.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Expressing that a politician is bad at their job is not hate speech. That is an opinion and very much protected by free speech.

Hate speech is a very specific term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech
I introduced the term into this discussion, because I assumed, the commenter above me meant that.

[–] mariubrlu@mastodonapp.uk 2 points 1 year ago

@Ephera Unfortunately, they like to mark anything they don't agree as hate speech, espionage act, etc. And there have been cases of detainment for shaming the establishment.