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‘You’re free in Sweden to be critical of immigration, those in power, or people identifying as “LBGT” — at least within the confines of your mind. But dare express those views, even on the Internet, and you can now be more easily prosecuted under a new law taking full effect after Christmas.
But Sweden’s new law adds another layer of hate-speech prohibition to the social ostracism. As Fria Tider (Free Times) reported (translated electronically from Swedish and then edited for grammar and word usage) in a piece entitled “New Law Makes it Easier to Prosecute Those Who Offend Immigrants or Those in Power,” “The crime of ‘insult’ will be prosecuted — but only for giving offense to immigrants, LGBTQ persons or authorities ...
This new law is meant to stop Swedish people from complaining about their country being turned into a third world nation.
Without freedom of speech there can be no democracy. If you are not allowed to say certain things then parties that support your ideas cannot exist and Sweden is at high risk of turning into a communist USSR-like country.
originally posted by: MeteoraXV
sweden is far gone. and i'm not talking about the changing demographics - i personally don't give a crap if sweden or all of europe for that matter is completely brown in the next century. but these draconian restrictions on free speech are very disturbing to read about, i didn't actually think they would go this far
According to Eurostat, in 2010, there were 1.33 million foreign-born residents in Sweden, corresponding to 14.3% of the total population. Of these, 859,000 (9.2%) were born outside the EU and 477,000 (5.1%) were born in another EU Member State.[12][13]
The ten largest groups of foreign-born persons in the Swedish civil registry in 2013 were:[14]
Finland (161,129)
Iraq (128,946)
Poland (78,175)
Former Yugoslavia (68,554)
Iran (67,211)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (56,804)
Somalia (54,221)
Germany (48,987)
Turkey (45,676)
Denmark (43,198)
Since the early 1970s, immigration to Sweden has been mostly due to refugee migration and family reunification from countries in the Middle East and Latin America.[18]