March 24, 2010

Glenn Greenwald - The creepy tyranny of Canada's hate speech laws

Glenn Greenwald - The creepy tyranny of Canada's hate speech laws

I've written many times before about the evils of "hate speech" laws that are prevalent in Canada and Europe -- people being fined, prosecuted and hauled before official tribunals for expressing political opinions which the State has prohibited and criminalized. I won't rehash those arguments here, but I do want to note a particularly creepy illustration of how these laws manifest.

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