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Pam Bondi Threatens To Prosecute Hate Speech, Which Charlie Kirk Himself (Rightly) Said Was Protected Speech (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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Attorney General Pam Bondi just provided a masterclass in how to completely misunderstand the First Amendment while threatening to abuse government power to silence critics. In response to online criticism of Charlie Kirk following his assassination, Bondi declared: “There’s free speech and then there’s hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society… We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech.”

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[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 9 points 2 weeks ago

Hating Nazis is not hate speech. Fuck off Nazis. Go get Kirk'd.

[–] EmilieEasie@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Facists are fascisting... that's hard to say