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The Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage (SPEECH) Act is a 2010 federal statutory law in the United States that makes foreign libel judgments unenforceable in U.S. courts, unless either the foreign legislation applied offers at least as much protection as the U.S. First Amendment (concerning free speech), or the defendant would have been found liable even if the case had been heard under U.S. law.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEECH_Act

  • bluescreen [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    The US first amendment is widely regarded worldwide as extremist. Its protections are only ever claimed by racists as an excuse to spew hate speech. There's a reason private platforms don't follow it, but the US government is handcuffed.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      The first amendment also comes up a lot when government spending does an oopsie and gives a bunch of cash to religious stuff, which they're not supposed to do, but still do sometimes. It also allows organizations like the Catholic church and Scientology to operate completely tax free schools and programs that make billions of dollars per year.

      Then yeah, you have these absolutists like everyone's favorite pedophile Allen Ginsberg who joined and advocated NAMBLA with a silly grin because it was technically free speech.