"During a recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Ira Glasser, who served as the fifth executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from 1978 to 2001, laid out the case for why attempting to ban “hate speech” and “false speech” is a bad idea.
“When people say they want to ban hate speech, what they mean is they want to ban speech that they hate,” Glasser said. “But if you allowed something called ‘hate speech’ to be banned, then the only important question would be ‘who decides?'”
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Glasser also noted that under John Adams’ presidency, Congress criminalized “false” statements against the US government with the introduction of the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798 and used this example to highlight the dangers of letting somebody else decide which speech should be allowed.
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Glasser went on to explain that the reason attempts to ban “hate speech” don’t work is because nobody can define what hate speech is.
“It all ends up coming down to who decides and most often, it ain’t you,” Glasser said.
https://reclaimthenet.org/former-aclu-head-ira-glasser-explains-why-you-cant-ban-hate-speech/
“When people say they want to ban hate speech, what they mean is they want to ban speech that they hate,” Glasser said. “But if you allowed something called ‘hate speech’ to be banned, then the only important question would be ‘who decides?'”
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Glasser also noted that under John Adams’ presidency, Congress criminalized “false” statements against the US government with the introduction of the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798 and used this example to highlight the dangers of letting somebody else decide which speech should be allowed.
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Glasser went on to explain that the reason attempts to ban “hate speech” don’t work is because nobody can define what hate speech is.
“It all ends up coming down to who decides and most often, it ain’t you,” Glasser said.
https://reclaimthenet.org/former-aclu-head-ira-glasser-explains-why-you-cant-ban-hate-speech/