> If we look at the press freedom index from Reporters without Borders, we find that the country with the most absolutist approach to speech, the United States, is ranked at 42 on the press freedom index.
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> Germany, in contrast, which has many explicit rules against hate speech, holocaust denial and so on, is ranked in 16th place.
The natural conclusion from this is that the Reporters without Borders' press freedom index is total BS.
> Few Western other countries ban as many books in schools as the United States. In 2022 there was a record as reported by PBS:
The books in question are pornographic books being put in school libraries. Do you support exposing children to porn?
> It was a topic which was put on center stage in relation to the murder of Dutch artist Theo van Gogh and Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn about a decade ago.
I'm confused. Do you support or oppose van Gogh's and Fortuyn's rights to free speech? After all most of the "hate speech" laws would include criticizing Muslims as "punching down" at a religious minority, and hence "hate speech".
> If we look at the press freedom index from Reporters without Borders, we find that the country with the most absolutist approach to speech, the United States, is ranked at 42 on the press freedom index.
>
> Germany, in contrast, which has many explicit rules against hate speech, holocaust denial and so on, is ranked in 16th place.
The natural conclusion from this is that the Reporters without Borders' press freedom index is total BS.
> Few Western other countries ban as many books in schools as the United States. In 2022 there was a record as reported by PBS:
The books in question are pornographic books being put in school libraries. Do you support exposing children to porn?
>
> It was a topic which was put on center stage in relation to the murder of Dutch artist Theo van Gogh and Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn about a decade ago.
I'm confused. Do you support or oppose van Gogh's and Fortuyn's rights to free speech? After all most of the "hate speech" laws would include criticizing Muslims as "punching down" at a religious minority, and hence "hate speech".