"Europe Is Jailing People for Online Speech," by Prof. Yascha Mounk

8 mdp2021 5 5/13/2025, 7:43:28 AM reason.com ↗

Comments (5)

gatestone · 2h ago
At least in Finland the jail sentences have been related to extreme widely published antisemitism. Fines have been given for other sorts of hate speech.

If the U.S. wants this to be allowed, it is your business. But it is ours to decide, if we want to allow nazis synmpathy newspapers advocating killing of the jew. Generally, the americans are lost in their arrogance here, as always.

superfist · 5m ago
Who decide what is hate speech?
rightbyte · 2h ago
Germany have been bad in this regard since the 19th century and the UK has slippery sloped alot in the last 10 or whatever years to the outright silly state today.

Any other countries I have missed?

dotandgtfo · 57m ago
The extrapolation to the entire Europe from a set of extreme outliers (Germany, understandably so, the UK, less so) is grossly disingenuous.
fithisux · 3h ago
With the transition to digital totalitarianism, jail will be a "block" from the digital realm.