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Mosby

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2. France has hate speech laws

Reply to Behind the Aegis (Original post)

Fri Jul 4, 2025, 02:22 PM

Jul 2025

The hate speech laws in France are matters of both civil law and criminal law. Those laws protect individuals and groups from being defamed or insulted because they belong or do not belong, in fact or in fancy, to an ethnicity, a nation, a race, a religion, a sex, a sexual orientation, or a gender identity or because they have a handicap. The laws forbid any communication which is intended to incite discrimination against, hatred of, or harm to, anyone because of his belonging or not belonging, in fact or in fancy, to an ethnicity, a nation, a race, a religion, a sex, a sexual orientation, or a gender identity, or because he or she has a handicap.

Maybe they don't apply to antisemitism anymore.

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(JEWISH GROUP) Anti-Semitism in France [View all] Behind the Aegis Jul 2025 OP

France and antisemitism go together like nycbos Jul 2025 #1

France has hate speech laws Mosby Jul 2025 #2

"Maybe they don't apply to antisemitism anymore." Behind the Aegis Jul 2025 #3

It is deplorable. lostincalifornia Jul 2025 #4