Thomas Freer on The End of Free Speech on Social Media
Thomas Freer
The End of Free Speech on Social Media
Claims and stances
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- 0:00 I completely agree, Heinz.
- 0:02 And while I do think uh stopping hate speech is important, the hardest thing there is gonna be drawing the line because, like you said, okay, is it hate speech towards certain groups or certain races?
- 0:15 Like, yes, that's horrible, but is it just someone talking out against immigration policy in their country and then now they get arrested for that?
- 0:25 Like, I think that's absurd.
- 0:26 So finding where to draw the line is the hardest part of this whole debate.
- 0:31 And I think if this same issue starts happening in the US, it it is to some degree, but um, it doesn't seem like it's as bad as Europe yet.
- 0:40 I think there are gonna be serious protests and backlash in the United States, uh, because we we all agree it's very important to keep our keep our right to free speech.
- 0:52 Um so yeah, I hope it doesn't get to that point here, but if it does, I assume there'll be there'll be lots of backlash.