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Originally Posted by DrTiTus
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Most developed democracies have laws that restrict hate speech to protect the 'social equality, dignity or security of historically marginalised citizens'. A lot of these countries (incl. Norway) have also passed into law a gender recognition act.
So if a countries government decides that gay couples can have the same rights as same sex-couples, or that non-white citizens have the same rights as white citizens, or legally recognises a transsexual person's gender - then if your speech goes against this
AND is shown to be harrassment and/or reaches the threshold for hate speech in that country, then there will be a consequence.