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VerminOctopus1 on April 25, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

You can also look north to Canada where the American notion of “free speech” does not apply. There are reasonable limits on hate speech, obscenity, defamation and the like.

alex_sf on April 25, 2022 [–]

How does Canada define hate speech and obscenity? Both of those are categories of speech ripe for 'think of the children' authoritarianism.

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