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 “Hate speech” is a made up Marxist euphemism. A dog whistle for aspiring censors.  

There is no such thing as hate speech. There is only speech that particular people don’t like.
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 GM, replying to your note on wss://nostr.oxtr.dev 
 Why does this bitch always sound 5 wines deep? 
 I hate it when she speaks 
 I’ve been called a spic to my face. I didn’t really appreciate it. So, I stopped talking to that person and moved on. 🤯🤯🤯 
 That’s how you are supposed to handle these types of situations. I don’t know how old you are but people were tougher 20 years ago. 
 Inspirational. I just been inspired to buy more guns.  
 You don’t have to be a fan of Trump. You could even hate him.

but the choice this November is clear.

If the choice is between bad and worse. Give me bad. 
 Well it could be worse, it could be raining!
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 Agree. She thinks she can win the election with this approach. Assuming this is properly researched it illustrates where the electorate stands. A good portion of the voters seem to want to be guided as to what they can and cannot say. 
 Hate speech is very real. Censoring it is not only constitutionally dubious but also ineffective for a number of reasons, but simply calling it out and movong on with your life is often enough! Except of course when people looking to spread hate train their audience to automatically attack anyone who does so... 
 super crazy to hear this from a presidential candidate. full-on evil Marxist  
 🎯 
 When I speak about Kamala it’s 💯 hate speech! 
 Bish be crazy. 
 One person’s hate speech is another person’s love speech. 
 The wife of a Conservative Councillor in the UK was recently convicted of  inciting violence in one of her posts on X. Is what she said not an example of hate speech? 

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 the term "hate speech" is just a tool that the most cunning can capitalize on. What she said can be thought of as hateful yes and on the other hand she would tell you that she is being hated on herself by her own government which is making her have to react and I would have to agree with her. 
 She broke the law by inciting and encouraging others to burn down hotels housing asylum seekers. Some people actually tried to do so as we saw. That type of speech can quite reasonably be described as "hate speech".  All civilised societies have laws which place limits on free speech. That's why we have laws that prohibit incitement to violence and murder. 
 Thats fine, it is technically incitement to violence i agree and broke the law. This is a rare case that something called hate speech is actually incitement to violence though as most of the time its not. Although like i indicated i can understand how people are getting so frustrated that they feel the need to resort to this kind of extreme behaviour and speech. Working class people get a lot of their joy in life from the simple things like social cohesion, camaraderie, togetherness, identity, familiarity. Their main things in life arent money and power like those few who are making much of the decisions for the country
 
 DAMN THIS WOMAN!!!!!!! 
 I don't even pay attention to these platforms anymore. I don't have any idea what happens on these them. I don't even know what she defines as hate speech.

I don't know why countries like the US and Brazil are banning these platforms.

I don't even care. We have freedom tech. 
 that's cool but nobody uses it instead of Bitcoin maxis. unless you make the user experience smooth like ice and get the network effect, normies will never ever use it  
 To be clear, this speech is from 2019.  As we've already seen with regard to other topics, 2024 anointed Presidential candidate Harris - intent on pandering to the middle - can't be expected to hold the same policy positions as 2019 no-shot Presidential candidate Harris - intent on scratching out a niche.

In other words, who knows what political expediency would eventually dictate for 2025 President Harris' policy positions if she wins?

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 Ok no this is straight up insanity. I don't like either side but this is absolutely gross 🤢 🤮 

#freedomofspeech #dtom
#insanity #thisiswhynostr #grownostr #thisistheway #nostrorbust

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#politics
#uspol

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 Perfect placement!  
 "if you act like a megaphone for misinformation" 🤡  
 So she's turning hersef in? 
 Sounds like it! 😂 
 Look I believe in free speech and people’s right to be intolerant. But to say there isn’t hate speech is a bit of a stretch. If I was to wander the streets saying all “insert ethnic group here” must die, I think that fits the definition. Semantics… 
 That and shouting “fire” in a theater….  But yeah     Be sure they don’t make platitudes and blue checks illegal friend.   Marxist….hehe 
 No. Not like this... not like this.

#whowatchesthewatchmen ?

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 This is insane. 
 Thoughts appear. Thoughts come seemingly out of nowhere, maybe subconscious? Arguably, thoughts are not chosen, they appear. Thoughts are affected by feelings. Feelings are affected by the surrounding world. Happenings are encountered: scare, anxiousness, winning the lottery - or speech. Again, the surrounding world affects feelings. Speech also does. Speech leads to feeling, feeling leads thought, thought leads to action. Action, call it cause and effect or whatever happens in the world, is important. It should matter. Then the question: what would you then call for example speech that causes people to make others suffer enormously? 
 Lol have an opinion? Well that's not very democratic 
 Governments of the world do not solve major issues (economy, immigration, all these (fake) crisis). Not because they are not able, but because they are the cause. 

So, governments go ahead and cause more problems, like jailing people for wrong-think. What else is new. We truly live in an Orwellian nightmare. 
 …as a community … OK 
 Her suits are not complimentary.  Looks like its a size too big. 
 it's a pattern! 
 (o_O) 
 My brain processed "haccp" on that bord at first before reading. 
 There is hate speech and speech you hate. And they are not necessarily the same.


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 Whose democracy is she speaking of? 
 Going after megaphone 📢 companies next, they have to be held responsible for the hate speech they amplify! 🤡 
 Co-incidentally wrote a note to that effect here:

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Tl;DR - Sovereign control
Both Offence and Instructions are taken

Binding someone to hear or act is violence
"I was told to" has not been an excuse since Mai Lai / Nuremberg

Own your actions! 
 So is using 'Marxist' for everything that isn't right leaning. 
 Is she drunk again? 
 I think #kamala is right in some part as you are right in some part.

I think socialmedia which use algorythms to promote aggressive language, provocation with no other intention then to provoke someone, this does not add to free speech. It rather obligates people to read this in favor of decent more calm language.

But you are also right in the way, that hatespeech is defined from the reader and no objective measurement. And to defend democracy, we need to accept critique in all forms and allow bad language. It should rather be critiqued as well and be distrusted by the public instead of censoring it by police.