As the Evelyn Beatrice Hall quote goes "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it".
Actual Hate speech is illegal in the UK. Stop Funding Hate is actually Stop funding politically incorrect opinions and I view that as the political equivalent of the discredited use of blasphemy laws against religious opponents. Don't like what someone says? Don't bother having a rational argument or giving your side of the argument. Just accuse them of hate speech/blasphemy and wave as they are dragged away to the kangaroo courts.
Lets look at the opposite situation. Lets imagine Donald Trump calls on advertisers to boycott CNN because of its coverage of republicans and Lego posts on Trump's twitter feed that it is not renewing its advertising with CNN. I suspect the howls of protest would be deafening and I also suspect they would be from the same people who support Stop Funding Hate.
There are several newspapers, TV channels and websites I disagree with, but I hope I never become the type of person who would campaign to get them shut down.
Actual Hate speech is illegal in the UK. Stop Funding Hate is actually Stop funding politically incorrect opinions and I view that as the political equivalent of the discredited use of blasphemy laws against religious opponents. Don't like what someone says? Don't bother having a rational argument or giving your side of the argument. Just accuse them of hate speech/blasphemy and wave as they are dragged away to the kangaroo courts.
Lets look at the opposite situation. Lets imagine Donald Trump calls on advertisers to boycott CNN because of its coverage of republicans and Lego posts on Trump's twitter feed that it is not renewing its advertising with CNN. I suspect the howls of protest would be deafening and I also suspect they would be from the same people who support Stop Funding Hate.
There are several newspapers, TV channels and websites I disagree with, but I hope I never become the type of person who would campaign to get them shut down.