The Editorial Board of the Daily News actually wrote something I agree with.
Last week, Steve Smith, a University of Idaho journalism professor, told the audience at an Oct. 31 League of Women Voters of Moscow forum that 49 percent of American millennials surveyed say it’s OK for the government to censor people who make offensive remarks to minority groups.
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Free speech in the U.S. is a complicated beast. The line between threatening speech, which can be banned or punished, and hate speech, which is protected under the First Amendment, is a thin one. It lies with the presence of a “true threat” – the likelihood of someone being physically harmed because of the speech, whether through a simple fist fight or something as big as inciting a riot.
It’s this added layer of specificity, built up by decades of Supreme Court cases, that ultimately protects Americans.