Before I state my question, I will say right here, that this is not an Anti-American thread, more of a question about certain well..over exploitation of your Constitution.
One day, I got bored, so I went around on wikipedia and was watching Law and Order on TV, so suddenly it's about a family that is Neo Nazi, and they deny the holocaust. So I search 'Holocaust Denial', it comes up with one article, a darn long one at that. Talking about various statements that Neo-Nazis in a few western countries, specifically the US, the US Neo-Nazis argue that this is their right to freedom of speech to say that the media is run by Jews, the footage of near skeletons in the camps was faked, and was in fact, a POW camp liberated during the war, and was excessively overexaggerated and so on and so forth. I didn't start this to talk just about Neo-Nazis either, what about the KKK? They seem to say they're expressing free speech by despising African Americans, Asians and other racial "inequalities" compared to whites.
I was pretty confused by this, so I searched for a version of the constitution talking about Freedom of Speech.
Sorry if this is turning into a history lesson or something.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
Here's a link for a definition of Freedom of Speech
The First Amendment addresses the rights of freedom of speech and the press; the right of peaceful assembly; and the right of petition. It also addresses freedom of religion, both in terms of prohibiting the establishment of religion and protecting the right to free exercise of religion. Americans refer to these rights collectively as "The Five Freedoms".
In my opinion, this is exploitation:
This picture's a bit old, but it shows what people see as "Free Speech"
A more modern one: The band "Prussian Blue" which alot of you Americans might be familiar with.
Of course, being an Australian, I'm not really familiar with American laws, but you'd think things like these would be banned? There's a limit to freedom of speech..
One day, I got bored, so I went around on wikipedia and was watching Law and Order on TV, so suddenly it's about a family that is Neo Nazi, and they deny the holocaust. So I search 'Holocaust Denial', it comes up with one article, a darn long one at that. Talking about various statements that Neo-Nazis in a few western countries, specifically the US, the US Neo-Nazis argue that this is their right to freedom of speech to say that the media is run by Jews, the footage of near skeletons in the camps was faked, and was in fact, a POW camp liberated during the war, and was excessively overexaggerated and so on and so forth. I didn't start this to talk just about Neo-Nazis either, what about the KKK? They seem to say they're expressing free speech by despising African Americans, Asians and other racial "inequalities" compared to whites.
I was pretty confused by this, so I searched for a version of the constitution talking about Freedom of Speech.
Sorry if this is turning into a history lesson or something.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
Here's a link for a definition of Freedom of Speech
The First Amendment addresses the rights of freedom of speech and the press; the right of peaceful assembly; and the right of petition. It also addresses freedom of religion, both in terms of prohibiting the establishment of religion and protecting the right to free exercise of religion. Americans refer to these rights collectively as "The Five Freedoms".
In my opinion, this is exploitation:
This picture's a bit old, but it shows what people see as "Free Speech"
A more modern one: The band "Prussian Blue" which alot of you Americans might be familiar with.
Of course, being an Australian, I'm not really familiar with American laws, but you'd think things like these would be banned? There's a limit to freedom of speech..
