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“…except as a punishment for crime” -13th amendment
Maybe “former” slave plantation isn’t an accurate description.
“…except as a punishment for crime” -13th amendment
Maybe “former” slave plantation isn’t an accurate description.
Those aren’t even real people. Those “usernames” are the names of custom emojis you can use in Twitch chat. Still weird in context, but I can see how it would be even more creepy if you didn’t know that.
Hate speech in the United States
In a Supreme Court case on the issue, Matal v. Tam (2017), the justices unanimously reaffirmed that there is effectively no “hate speech” exception to the free speech rights protected by the First Amendment and that the U.S. government may not discriminate against speech on the basis of the speaker’s viewpoint.
It’s not a crime on its own in the US, but if it incites imminent lawless action that can be a crime.
It’s not a link to a sponsor. It’s a YouTube info page about what it means for a video to have the “Contains sponsorship” tag.