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In many countries “hate speech” is illegal, the US is one of the few with truly free speech. Pro Nazi and racial incitement speech is illegal in France, Germany and Austria AFAIK. Here in South Africa too. Even though I’m for free speech, I feel this is understandable and defendable.


I know there are quite a few European countries with laws against hate speech, I was mostly referring to the following two parts:

>defined essentially as any form of discrimination whatsoever

>has been made illegal in Europe following the growth of the anti-immigration far right.


Even in the states, there are plenty of exceptions to free speech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

The US definitely has the most free speech, but you're still restricted in various ways.




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