Poll: Majority Says First Amendment Goes Too Far

BeholdenGlory said:

Or otherwise filed under, "Reasons for another civil war".

Majority of Americans Want to Scrap First Amendment, Polling Finds - Campaign for Free Speech

Here is how the poll results, released Wednesday, break down:

• 57% of millennials say the First Amendment goes too far, while 35% disagree.
• 47% of baby boomers say the First Amendment goes too far, compared to 48% who disagree.
• 57% of all those polled say the government should be able to take action against newspapers and TV stations for biased content, compared to 35% who disagree.
• 48% say hate speech should be against the law, while 31% say it should be allowed.

Read Newsmax: Poll: Majority Says First Amendment Goes Too Far

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Brightmoon said:

Well if they’ll remove a child from your home for verbal abuse and it’s also caused marriages to fail , I absolutely think hate speech should be made illegal . It harms people and encourages others to cause more harm

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Section 318: Advocating genocide
Section 318 makes it an offence to advocate or promote genocide, which is defined as killing members of an identifiable group, or inflicting conditions of life on a group which are calculated to bring about the physical destruction of the group. The offence is indictable, and carries a maximum penalty of imprisonment not exceeding five years. There is no minimum punishment. The consent of the provincial Attorney General is required for a charge to be laid under this section.

Section 319(1): Publicly inciting hatred
Section 319(1) makes it an offence to communicate statements in a public place which incite hatred against an identifiable group, where it is likely to lead to a breach of the peace. The Crown prosecutor can proceed either by indictment or by summary process. The maximum penalty is imprisonment of not more than two years. There is no minimum punishment.

Section 319(2): Promoting hatred
Section 319(2) makes it an offence to wilfully promote hatred against any identifiable group, by making statements (other than in private conversation). The Crown prosecutor can proceed either by indictment or by summary process. The maximum penalty is imprisonment of not more than two years.

Section 319(3) provides specific defences to the offence of promoting hatred. A person will not be convicted if:

the person establishes that the statements communicated were true;

• in good faith, the person expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text;
• the statements were relevant to any subject of public interest, the discussion of which was for the public benefit, and if on reasonable grounds the person believed them to be true; or
• in good faith, the person intended to point out, for the purpose of removal, matters producing or tending to produce feelings of hatred toward an identifiable group in Canada.

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Silverback said:

This is how democracy dies.

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VCR-2000 said:

Too bad that half of my own generation (millennial) are lost in trash and the stain of Western civilization.

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Silverback said:

Define hate speech?...If I say that per capita Black Folks in the US murder each other at the rate of 10 per 100,000, and White/Latino's are around 1.6 per 100,000, is that hate speech? What if I have good sources that differ from your sources, does that make what I say hate speech?

See what I'm saying?

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evoeth said:

Weird how you went immediately to complaining about how you're not allowed to talk about how black's are statistically inferior to whites.

SUPER WEIRD. Isn't it?

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Silverback said:

This is how democracy dies.

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BeholdenGlory said:

No, they're all going down the dystopian orwellian technocratic hellscape we all find ourselves staring at.

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JackRT said:

The times change and the Constitution and its Amendments need to change with it. That is exactly why the Constitution has already been amended 27 times.

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