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HarryOru@lemm.ee 4 days agoSorry dude. I know you really really want to be taken seriously, but it’s just not gonna happen. Defamation laws have been around for millennia (50 years of case law? Lol) and they’re just one tiny example of regulation of speech. If you don’t believe political propaganda on social media should be regulated exactly the same way, you probably lack the mental acuity to understand the concepts of cause and effect. Or you’re just arguing in bad faith as well. We could go on for hours about the excesses of extra-woke cancel culture and how they are detrimental to discourse, but since you decided to open with “Nazi propaganda is free speech” I’m pretty sure it would be a huge waste of time.
timewarp@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Defamation laws are a civil matter. You have to sue someone & prove in court that you were defamed. There are also specific laws for public figures & case law for things said on Twitter/X. Furthermore, what is propaganda to you might be what some of them legitimately believe. You can’t sue people for believing in a different ideology. For example, you can’t sue someone for liking chocolate ice cream because you like vanilla, nor can you sue people because they believe that God doesn’t exist. I’d love to see you take it to court though & send me the docker number once you do, so I can be amused.