Public insult and defamation

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@Marco

Most western countries have public insult laws. Only the US is without.

Freedom of Speech - What it Means - Also Public Insults/Defamation/Slander/Libel

Something that came up in the Temp thread that inspired this thread: It’s not the same as hate speech and not the same as defamation either. Something else that people rarely think of now in most countries, even though it still exists in some: Anyway, as you can see from the insult map, [Legal_status_of_insult] it’s definitely a thing in civil law jurisdictions, so we shouldn’t be surprised to find it in Taiwan. The main difference is not the law per se but the cultural standard of what…