JediPunisher wrote on Jan 10, 2021, 07:20:
Acleacius wrote on Jan 10, 2021, 02:57:
... It's absurdist to think places like parler should/could/would/ will exist ever again. violent hate (in any language) is not Speech protected in any way,
and certainly not the Constitution.
The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that hate speech is legally protected free speech under the First Amendment. The most recent Supreme Court case on the issue was in 2017, when the justices unanimously reaffirmed that there is effectively no "hate speech" exception to the free speech rights protected by the First Amendment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_in_the_United_States
That's true, but it's not incumbent on private corporations to host said speech.
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