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Winnipeg man pleads guilty to advocating genocide and wilfully promoting hatred in social media posts (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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[–] 26 points 3 months ago

Rindall admitted to writing the posts in a Feb. 13 statement to police. He told police he was entitled to "free speech" and should be allowed to post whatever he wants, adding he didn't think laws against this type of hate speech should exist, the statement of facts said.

This is what a steady diet of Fox News and the like will bring. Hatred, plus not knowing the difference between American laws and Canadian laws. I really appreciate that hate speech is a criminal offence in Canada.

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    [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Another Canadian laid low by american culture.

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    [–] 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Freedom of speech ≠ freedom of consequences

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Sure but Canada is not America and we have laws against hate speech.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    Correct. That’s the consequences part.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (2 children)

    I think the reason they corrected you is that usually when that phrase is used, it is referring to US "freedom of speech" where although the law protects you from being arrested or charged for your speech, you can still be ousted from a community or fired (consequences)

    However, in Canada, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms permits the government to enforce "reasonable" limited censoring of speech. So, in Canada, we do not have free speech in the same way because we can get arrested for hate speech.

    So there is a distinction here. I'm happy to clarify if any of my language was confusing, let me know if this explanation makes sense.

    Edit: also in Canada it is not called "freedom of speech", it is called "freedom of expression"

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