European Commission VP Věra Jourová claimed that America will “soon” pass laws criminalizing so-called “hate speech” in spite of the First Amendment.
Jourová made the remarks at the Davos summit on Tuesday during a session hosted by CNN’s Brian Stelter discussing “The Clear and Present Danger of Disinformation.”
“For hate speech, we need the people who understand the language and the case law in the country, because what qualifies as hate speech, illegal hate speech, which you will have soon also in the U.S., we have a strong reason why we have this in the criminal law,” Jourová said.
She added that Big Tech companies need to do more to police speech rather than leaving it up to AI algorithms.
This comes as Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) introduced a bill in the House that would broadly criminalize some forms of “hate speech,” including perpetuating facts about “replacement theory.”
According to the bill, a “person engages in a white supremacy inspired hate crime when white supremacy ideology has motivated the planning, development, preparation, or perpetration of actions that constituted a crime or were undertaken in furtherance of activity that, if effectuated, would have constituted a crime.”
Specifically, the bill would impose criminal penalties for anyone who “published material advancing white supremacy, white supremacist ideology, antagonism based on ‘replacement theory,’ or hate speech that vilifies or is otherwise directed against any non-White person or group, and such published material,” if it was “read, heard, or viewed by a person who engaged in the planning, development, preparation, or perpetration of a white supremacy inspired hate crime.”
The Supreme Court made clear in a unanimous ruling in a 2017 case concerning government regulation of the First Amendment that free speech cannot be regulated as “hate speech.”
Justice Samuel Alito summed up the ruling:
[The idea that the government may restrict] speech expressing ideas that offend … strikes at the heart of the First Amendment. Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express “the thought that we hate.”
But the globalists and foreign interests aren’t going to let a pesky thing like the U.S. Constitution stop them from trying to criminalize speech since their power depends on the control of information.
Article Written by Jamie White
