While Scotland tries to suppress hate speech that shall not be named, the resistance of brave writers such as J.K. Rowling may end this curse on free speech.
” went into effect on April 1. The new law promised to “tackle the harm caused by hatred and prejudice,” but as with all hate speech laws, even if well intentioned, the inevitable result is both the subjectivehas solemnly sworn that she is up to no good. As the law went into effect, Rowling made a now-viral series of posts on X that took direct aim at the vague, speech-restricting law.
But as anyone who has studied hate speech laws could predict, criminalizing “hate speech” inevitably affects even those it was supposed to protect. Since the law has come into effect, by far,has actually been First Minister Humza Yousaf, mostly for a parliamentary speech he gave in June 2020 in which he decried the number of white people in positions of power in Scotland.
Beyond just the collateral damage that the vagueness of such laws causes, other states have deliberately weaponized the subjectivity of “hate speech” to ban all sorts of dissent. Turkey regularly prosecutes those who criticize the government under its hate speech laws. Rwandan hate speech laws suppress the dissenting views of political opponents and civil society, including criticism of the hate speech law itself.
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