Re: Censoship List

On 1/13/21 4:24 PM, Big Al wrote:
> On 1/13/21 6:19 PM, this is what Ken Springer wrote:
>> On 1/13/21 3:21 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
>>> On 1/13/21 2:51 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
>>>> Technically hate speech is censorship,
>>>
>>> How is hate speech censorship?  Or are you describing an effect of hate
>>> speech driving others away, thus censoring what they would have said?
>>>
>>> If so, I find that considerably different than something like censoring
>>> / bleeping cuss words on TV.
>>>
>>>> The biggest problem here is who gets to define it.  you may find some
>>>> speech as hateful, others may not.
>>>
>>> There is usually a commonly accepted average of what is and is not
>>> hateful.  There's also how it's used.  Talking about something in the
>>> abstract vs using it to describe someone (ad hominem attack) are two
>>> considerably different things.  The former may be a slippery slope,
>>> while the latter is a step too far.
>>
>> But all in all, the demarcation line here is still in the eye of the beholder.
>>
>>> A quote from a judge comes to mind:  I can't define porn, but I sure
>>> know it when I see it.
>>
>> It's from a US Supreme Court justice, but I don't remember which one.
>>
>>
>>
> It wasn't the Larry FLint Case?

> The phrase was used in 1964 by United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart to 
> describe his threshold test for obscenity in Jacobellis v. Ohio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it




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