cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26284554
By Syma Mohammed
Published date: 20 February 2025 21:44 GMTAlex Tyrrell, party leader of the Green Party of Quebec, who accompanied Engler to the police station on Thursday, spoke to the Middle East Eye about Engler’s arrest.
“I think it’s a shocking attack on free expression and democratic rights and criticism of Israel in Canada - a country that’s supposed to be a free, democratic society. We’re supposed to speak out about a genocide," Tyrrel told MEE.
Those things are slightly different. You have the right to say “FIRE” in a crowded movie theater. You have to pay for the consequences if it’s not true.
If we’re talking about posting opinions that offended people, that’s a whole another thing. People can get offended because you have a difference of opinion.
I think you need to prove either damages were caused or you were endangered by someone (damages were not caused, but could easily have been)
I don’t consider “a person said something I didn’t like” as harassment