Reply #5: There is a big difference between 'free speech' and 'hate speech'. [View All]

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As an anarcho-socialist myself, I can see where you are coming from,. however the people need not let any hate fueled slander be spread over public airwaves,. you see, the radio bandwidth is limited and is already controlled and licensed by a regulatory body. If Rush or any other dimwitted hatemonger is spouting racist, classist, fear-inducing, hate inciting crap then perhaps they should lose the privilege of the use of the public airwaves, freeing it up for someone else. Have you listened to some of the right-wing American taliban propaganda that is broadcast daily?? Much of this I would categorize at hate speech and fine and then remove. The problem is, as always, that when the government is corrupted (as is the case now, big time!) ppl see government authority as the evil,. however the people will always have a collective 'will' and however it is realized, it will enforce some limits on what is acceptable in general,. I know it is a endless loop of control begetting corruption,. that leads to the losing of faith in the collective,. but what else is there? Anyway I agree with much of what you say, however it is just not to cut and dry.