Brian Molko criticised Giorgia Meloni during a concert at the Sonic Park festival

Meloni heads Italy’s most rightwing government since the second world war. Italy’s criminal code punishes with a fine ranging from €1,000 to €5,000 anyone who “publicly defames the republic”, which includes the government, parliament, the courts and the army.

  • problematicPanther@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    What i meant was actually, fighting words are not protected under free speech in the USA. Not disagreeing, just making a funny.

    • suction@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Not just that, slander, defamation, hate speech, harassment can all be speech yet you can get sued and will have to pay for that sort of speech. Actually the US is basically the same as most other western countries, the „only the US allows free speech“-simpletons couldn’t be further off.