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maximus_01today at 3:26 AM3 repliesview on HN

The days of the left being more supportive of free speech than the right are long over


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linkregistertoday at 3:52 AM

Yeah, nah, the Australian right has been casting pro-Palestinian speech as anti-semitic.

In the States, the right has been supportive of government suppression of speech, including the communications agency (FCC) threatening broadcasters into cancelling an interview with a politician in the opposition party. The right's free speech record is far worse in the US and Australia.

Admittedly, neither side of the aisle have good free speech practices in most of the rest of the world.

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BLKNSLVRtoday at 3:43 AM

The Right/Republicans have always touted free speech. They love getting their hate out.

The Left have always been a bit more 'censory', generally because of their bleeding hearts on behalf of the minorities that are the targets of the Right's exercising of their free speech.

Such is my understanding. I don't really mind either stance, with the caveat that anything 'censory' has a chance of having it's definitions expanded (and admittedly, this is succumbing to the slippery slope fallacy).

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8notetoday at 3:56 AM

... right wing freedom of speech is defined with a simple rule.

you're allowed to say anything you want as long as bari weiss determines that you are sufficiently zionist and wont say anything that isnt zionist enough