Source: Information Liberation

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation

The US will “soon” have laws to punish “illegal hate speech,” EU Commission VP for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova told the World Economic Forum on Tuesday.

“Illegal hate speech, which you will have soon also in the U.S. I think that we have a strong reason why we have this in the criminal law,” Jourova said.

European Commission VP Věra Jourová at the WEF:

"Illegal hate speech, which you will have soon also in the U.S. I think that we have a strong reason why we have this in the criminal law." pic.twitter.com/iLR1MePTYT

— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) January 17, 2023

As I reported on Tuesday, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) introduced a bill to the House that would make it a potential “hate crime” for white people to criticize non-white people and Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) claimed recently that espousing “hate” is “not protected under the First Amendment.”

New York state also passed a bill last year aimed at suppressing “hateful” speech online.

During the same WEF panel, New York Times owner Arthur Sulzberger whined about the “existential” threat of “disinformation” and said people criticizing “fake news” reminds him of Nazi Germany.

NYT’s Sulzberger: Disinformation is "the most existential" challenge we’re grappling with as a society #wef23 pic.twitter.com/2l55rIH7nU

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 17, 2023

NYT’s Sulzberger on Trump invoking "fake news," "enemy of the people": The same happened in "Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia" pic.twitter.com/z1nXkkTvOo

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 17, 2023

Rep. Moulton blames "misinformation" for his inability to get his constituents to take more Covid shots #wef23 pic.twitter.com/Oth2kYmdxX

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 17, 2023

[Header image by the World Economic Forum, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0]

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