{"id":808,"date":"2004-04-21T02:38:55","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T10:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/21\/leiter-report-on-free-speech-in-the-usa-and-canada\/"},"modified":"2004-04-21T02:38:55","modified_gmt":"2004-04-21T10:38:55","slug":"leiter-report-on-free-speech-in-the-usa-and-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=808","title":{"rendered":"Leiter Report on Free Speech in the USA and Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lieter Report <\/a>compares free speech in Canada (where “hate speech” is often banned) with free speech in the USA:<\/p>\n

Already, from the increasingly ridiculous right-wing corners of the U.S. blogosphere, we hear the mocking clucking of the libertarian pundits, “Pity poor Canada, they have no free speech.”<\/p>\n

It is true that if you despise homosexuality, and if you want to freely express that view, especially on religious grounds, you’re better off in the U.S. It’s also true that if you’re skeptical about U.S. motives in Iraq (and elsewhere) and think the invasion was on a par, morally, with the Soviet invasion of Aghanistan; if you believe nationalized health care is preferable to a system which caters to the needs of the insurance industry; if you think redistributive taxation is a requirement of justice; if, in short, you dissent from the neoliberal paradigm and chauvinist nationalism that dominate the public sphere in the United States, you will have far more freedom of speech in Canada: for example, your views might be expressible outside your living room, perhaps, say, in major newspapers, or even on television.<\/p><\/div>\n

The whole thing<\/a> is worth reading. And there’s a followup post <\/a>as well..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lieter Report compares free speech in Canada (where “hate speech” is often banned) with free speech in the USA: Already, from the increasingly ridiculous right-wing corners of the U.S. blogosphere, we hear the mocking clucking of the libertarian pundits, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech-censorship-copyright-law-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}