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The Bill includes no definition of hate and is wide open to abuse by bad actors. Defend free speech – say no to this legislation, and any legislation of is kind... Anywhere!

https://x.com/FreeSpeechIre/status/1746854766032846910?t=g8nSn9maY3dX0v76oHa9Cg&s=09[https://x.com/FreeSpeechIre/status/1746854766032846910?t=g8nSn9maY3dX0v76oHa9Cg&s=09](url)

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[–] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Watch yourself, don't want to fall down that slippery slope.

[–] RandoCalrandian@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You’re right, I haven’t given you enough time to move away down there at the bottom

Also, to reiterate another posters point: hate crime laws and hate speech laws are very different things.

The first one increases penalties for things already considered crimes, the second one criminalizes previously legal actions.

You’d have to be pretty brain dead to use those two concepts interchangeably, or to justify each other (which they often are)

[–] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The bill covers both hate speech and hate crimes. Which aspects of the bill do you take issue with? I personally don't think it should be legal to incite violence against people of a protected class. I didn't realize that was such a hot take.