The head of the United Nations is pressuring governments to obliterate all online speech that is allegedly “hateful.”
UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a statement for the June 18 “Day for Countering Hate Speech,” asserting that nations “have an obligation … to prevent and combat incitement to hatred,” especially on “digital platforms.” Guterres totally ignored his own organization’s virulent persecution of Israel and promotion of anti-Semitic jihadi propaganda. Instead, he claimed that anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic speech online illustrates a need for censorship that violates American Constitutional protections.
Guterres insisted on extreme suppression of hate speech without defining his terms. “Hate speech is a marker of discrimination, abuse, violence, conflict and even crimes against humanity,” he declared. “We…
