Europe’s Crackdown on Speech Goes Far and Wide
Professor Eric Heinze speaks to the Wall Street Journal on the differences between US and European views on free speech.
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A debate about free speech playing out across Europe, where ill-defined hate-speech laws and social media have created a situation for authorities to crack down on those seen to be stirring up trouble. This is in stark contrast to the US, where free speech, and hate speech are generally protected by the First Amendment.
“Americans saw Nazi Germany as the place that repressed speech,” says Eric Heinze, Professor of Law and Humanities at Queen Mary University of London .“Europeans tended to see Nazi Germany as a place that used speech in ways that ended up in a genocide.”
Read the full article on the Wall Street Journal.