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Hate Speech and Free Speech
The Wrong Kind of Climate Control
Manjarrez, Kieran http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/01/14/hate-speech-and-free-speech
Publisher: CounterPunch
Date Written: 14/01/2011
Year Published: 2011
Resource Type: Article
Laws against sedition, in whatever guise, are an attack on free speech. Unlike laws against those rare instances of incitement which trigger immediate and actual violence against a present target (as in "get him boys!"), laws against sedition are always couched in vague, open ended terms because the real target is not the alleged "dangers" protected against but some political agenda or ideology that is opposed.
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What does it actually mean to call for government “investigation” of "violence-generating" speech?
The investigation part is fairly easy to answer: it means police and FBI agents keeping tabs of what you say, interviewing your neighbors about what do, getting warrants to poke into your reading habits and ultimately detaining you for further questioning. Such investigations inevitably entail what the Nazis called “block wardens” — neighbors and other snitches who make it their business to overhear your chat and take note of the books and guests you bring home. Already both the government and various interest groups have set up networks and web pages to recruit security-volunteers to poke around and keep an ear out for terrorism- or racist- generating violence.
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