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That's not true at all. Canada has both strong anti-hate-speech laws and a far lesser (though still existant) problem with racism and racial justice overall than the US. Freedom of speech always has limits.


Canada doesn't really have freedom of speech. Mike Ward faces a $80k fine for making a joke[0].

[0]: https://podtail.com/pt-BR/podcast/wrongspeak/-10-that-s-not-...


And neither does America. This man was arrested for calling his mayor corrupt: https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/internet-speech/new-ha...

To be honest, I know where most people stand on free speech when I see them saying that we shouldn't allow anyone to call for anyone else to be fired. I think freedom of speech is so important that I will defend to the death your right to ask for me to be fired.


> The police ultimately dropped the charges — after the ACLU of New Hampshire spoke out against Frese’s prosecution.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/internet-speech/new-ha...

nobody was prosecuted in that story. The police did abuse their power.


Well, no one was prosecuted in PayPal's termination of Epik's account either so I suppose we're good here then.


> That's not true at all. Canada has both strong anti-hate-speech laws and a far lesser (though still existant) problem with racism and racial justice overall than the US. Freedom of speech always has limits.

Canada also has far less "visible minorities" than USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_origins_of_people_in_Ca...


> a far lesser ... problem with racism and racial justice overall than the US

On what basis are you making that claim?

Asking as a Canadian-US dual citizen with 20+ years of lived non-white experience in both countries. I don't think these things are so easy to measure and my experience has largely been that every other country likes to pretend they have fewer race relations problems than the US and the claims largely rest on anecdata and media driven sentiment.




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