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Related: About this forumNazis, white supremacists, don't get free speech
Thom discussses the limits of the 1st amendment's free speech protections and notices something interesting, speech that harms is already not allowed, so why are we letting Nazis get away with abusing the 1st amendment?
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Nazis, white supremacists, don't get free speech (Original Post)
thomhartmann
Aug 2017
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FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)1. Do Russians? And, would RT push an argument that weakens 1st Amendment rights in the USA? (n/t)
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)2. Good points Thom.
Initech
(100,068 posts)3. They don't get much of anything!
former9thward
(31,997 posts)4. Thom does not know the law or the Constitution.
The Supreme Court has siaid time and time again speech which the majority finds disgusting is exactly the speech the 1st amendment protects. The Supreme Court said Nazis could march in Skokie ( a largely Jewish suburb of Chicago).