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Brazil Supreme Court panel unanimously upholds judge's decision to block X nationwide (apnews.com)

submitted 3 months ago by vegeta@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand your statement, printing Nazi propaganda is a crime so yeah it will be shutdown for committing a crime, doesn't matter if in the odds day they are printing school books.

[–] testfactor@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Printing Nazi propaganda isn't illegal in the US.

And I realize this isn't in the US, obviously. But I think that the idea that the government shouldn't be able to ban people from saying things, or compel them to say things, is so baked into the American zeitgeist (of which I am a member), that it feels wrong in a fundamental moral sense when it happens.

It's the old, "I don't agree with anything that man says, but I'll defend to the death his right to say it," thing.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank god is not the US.

People can say whatever they want but they will suffer the consequences of it, you can not make death threats to people, you can not make defamation like in the case of the female Olympic athlete. If the consequences for these acts are only monetary so the law only works for poor people.

[–] testfactor@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

To be clear, harassment and defamation are crimes in the US as well. Freedom of speech doesn't mean that you can harm people with your speech with impunity. It's a prohibition on the government from meddling with political speech, especially that of people who are detractors of the government.