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Norway criminalizes public and private “hate speech” about trans issues
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I learned about a new Norwegian law from this tweet by Bari Weiss, who links to a report in Out Magazine.
What struck me, as a free-speech absolutist who adheres to our courts’ interpretation of the American First Amendment, was the notion of “hate speech”, which is slippery at best, as well as the part of the Norwegian law that allows imprisonment for comments made in private. I read the out.com article and also one from the charitable Thomson Reuters Foundation (click on screenshot below).
An excerpt from Thomson Reuters:
Norway’s parliament outlawed hate speech against transgender and bisexual people on Tuesday, expanding its penal code which has protected gay and lesbian people since 1981.
People found guilty…
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