Comment by JacobThreeThree
1 year ago
That doesn't really fit with my experience in Canada, especially given that Canadian law has robust freedom of expression provisions in the charter of rights and freedoms.
https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/rfc-dlc/ccrf-ccdl/chec...
I don't want to start a shouting match and have to prove my case for every country but this is from Wikipedia.
"Hate speech, obscenity, and defamation are common categories of restricted speech in Canada. During the 1970 October Crisis, the War Measures Act was used to limit speech from the militant political opposition."
That isn't evidence that Canada barely considers free speach "good in and of itself."
Different countries have different rules and restrictions on free speech and every country has some. If you setup a framework for comparison, you can rank them, but this doesn't always end up with the USA on top and often it's not even in the top 10. Canada often ranks over the USA.
Your assertion is thus pretty clearly not true by the best objective measures we have.
What do you think of the trucker protests and how they were handled? I find it hard to believe any Canadian can honestly claim that Canada has more free speech than the US.
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Free speech doesn't mean unlimited speech. In the US you are not free to defraud, slander, physically endanger, etc. And everywhere, in everything, there are failures and imperfections.
If "hate speech and obscenity" aren't covered by free speech protections, what is?
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