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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zzpat who wrote (65137)	4/6/2018 4:14:04 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362757

I didn't say its ok (or that it wasn't). I said that hate speech is different than, and more to the point treated differently under the law, that obscenity. Also even obscenity isn't considered an exception to the 1st amendment or the broader idea of freedom of speech. Obscenity can't be flat out banned, neither can hate speech. And again the vast majority of speech from the people you were complaining about isn't hate speech. As for criminals and terrorists there are no laws banning them from speaking, or even "from the airways", and in fact quite criminals and terrorists have been interviewed by or had their speeches or statements shown or quoted by broadcast TV channels (and cable news, etc.)