Faisal Aslam

I am in favor of it. How about focusing on the actual root causes of hate instead of suffocating communucation?

What is the major ROOT cause of hatred of LGBT people? Lets fix that.

Does anyone have an actual opinion about extending free speech to the internet, workplace and in organizations and sportsteams?

In a democratic open society, yes religion is a choice as an adult. You may be heavily influenced by family and friends but there is nothing stopping you from changing your religion, if you are willing to deal with the social costs. But that is the same for ALL sets of ideas. If you come from a family of communists and realize you are a hard core…[Read more]

The American government CAN interfere with free speech, but only in retrospect. Free speech isn’t without a cost. You can be sued for forms of defamation and be penalized heavily.

Not all speech critical of others is actual hate speech (founded on rock-bottom hatred). For example, criticism of gays has a Biblical basis. The religious person may…[Read more]

Here is a good discussion from the BBC about social and artistic censorship.

note: Peter is the brother of Christopher Hitchens.

In a democratic open society, yes religion is a choice as an adult. You may be heavily influenced by family and friends but there is nothing stopping you from changing your religion, if you are willing to deal with the social costs. But that is the same for ALL sets of ideas. If you come from a family of communists and realize you are a hard core…[Read more]

Companies have censored content since the beginning of the US. Can you imagine The Gap doing nothing if an employee tapes a sign to the front door of a shop saying “The Gap is a bastard corporation”? Or if an employee went around telling all the female employees they had nice tits? I’m pretty sure the employee would be fired and you wouldn’t see…[Read more]

I think supressing any and all non-violent forms of expression is..well repressive and prefer if the government does not do that.

Now we have social media companies censoring posts and uploads……..but according to what rules? Very subjective.

They will start pulling down Hitchens’ videos before you know it. I am sure many Catholics are…[Read more]

I’m not concerned with hate speech in public. That’s legal in the U.S. (mostly) and not in Canada/Europe/NZ/Australia. Those countries have made their decisions and have to live with the consequences. Hate speech is widely reported in the U.S. and so are hate crimes. You can interrupt a funeral and tell grievers that he deserved to die “because…[Read more]

I believe that hate speech should be protected right up to the point of direct or implied violence as far as criminal law is concerned. For civil law….take your chances….