Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook
If I understand this correctly, he's pulling back from offline comments he's made about Hollywood (vis Jewish people) and of course years of negative Jewish stereotypes in his work.<p>Before this, he "bent the knee" with his portrayal of Eli Cohen. Wasn't a terrible film but his reverence for the character was a bit much.<p>FB is a dumpster fire, I don't think anyone argues otherwise these days. But differentiating between freedom of speech and "reach" is just as dangerous as saying we need to treat freedom of speech on a case by case basis.<p>We either have freedom of speech or we don't. If we don't, sooner or later we're all fucked.<p>There are no sounds that I can make with my mouth that are dangerous. If people are easily convinced to hate other people, the problem is not dangerous speech or ideas. The problem is a breakdown in fundamental education, i.e., those people are dangerously ignorant.<p>We need to work on the fundamental issues, not grant more power to groups with specific political / authoritarian agendas.