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Originally Posted by Sliver
It's an example of how we don't have complete freedom to say whatever we want. I also can't hold a lecture on how to make IEDs and I can't preach hateful speech based on race, gender, sexual orientation, etc.
My point was we don't have freedom of speech right now anyway, and inhibiting morons from preaching stupidity is not a far cry from what we do now anyway. You didn't get that?
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Yes, it is a very far cry away. Legally speaking, Canada's criminal code prevents hate speech only in extreme circumstances, ie. inducing harm, teaching it in the classroom as fact etc... The latter example is highly controversial even after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled against James Keegstra.
We live in a democracy and we should accept the full spectrum of ideas, even if we don't like some of them. Just because I disagree with someone or think they are stupid, doesn't give me the right to drag them up before some committee and have them silenced.
Otherwise you are just another Joseph McCarthey or Stalin.