5 Men charged with stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation

[HotelUser]

Well firstly you are advocating abolishing free speech as you want to ban opinions of which you do not like - thus, ending free speech.



Propaganda is beaten best by free speech, by proving it wrong as I say again - if propaganda is not subjected to debate then it becomes conventional wisdom, and conventional wisdom is always adopted when free speech is stifled. The points I raised you still have not responded to, instead you are continuing to exaggerate a case of genocide in a country which has enormous cultural differences and were tribalism is alive and well.



But do answer my question on the communist party along with those related to crimes and banning civil liberties in the name of security and safety, because throughout this thread when i've used examples they've simply been ignored - my guess is that because they show up the flawed logic of 'exceptions' in free speech, as the quote above points out.

No, you don't know what you're talking about. The diversity amongst the Hutu and the Tutsi were caused when it was colonized. Their history doesn't hundreds and hundreds of years into the past as two separate entities - but one with the same culture and language. And it's not a matter of opinion, if we could have stopped the people fueling the genocide we could have stopped the genocide.

[Catzsy]

So why not just outright outlaw all forms of offensive/threatening language?

The line is drawn from violence, words on the other hand do not cause harm hence do not need to be outlawed.

Actually it is not and there is law against this. i.e. people harrassing and insulting people with verbal abuse or written abuse via facebook etc. They get a written harrassment notice first and if they don't comply they end up in court. Maybe start another a thread when a group of men/women are standing on a street corner handing out leaflets stating that people with 'ginger' hair should be executed and then you might have a point.