Bill Maher Tells Guest Tom Green ‘You Don’t Know What Free Speech Is’ as They Go Toe-to-Toe on Canadian Hate Speech Laws

Bill Maher informed his guest Tom Green this week that he doesn’t “know what free speech is” during a debate on Canadian hate speech laws.

Green joined Maher on the latter’s Club Random podcast and Green found himself defending his home country as Maher railed against “woke Canadian assholes.” Green argued there is “misinformation” about Canadian laws policing hate speech and public incitement of hatred against specific groups.

“I have never experienced a situation where I can’t say something. There are hate speech laws in Canada, so there are things you can’t say. But you know what? Who would want to say that shit anyways, right?” Green said.

“That’s not what free speech means,” Maher responded.

Green argued that Canada specifically defines hate speech.

“You can pretty much say anything you want except things you would not agree with, and that nobody would want to agree with,” he said.

“You don’t know what free speech is then. That’s the definition of ‘Not Free Speech.’ Not everybody thinks the same. The Supreme Court ruled in our country that the Nazis could march in Skokie, Illinois,” Maher said, referencing the 1977 decision from the Supreme Court where they ruled that Nazis could march based on free speech rights.

The American Civil Liberties Union represented the Nazis seeking to march in the case, a controversial decision as Skokie was home to thousands of Holocaust survivors at the time.

“The Supreme Court said, ‘As abhorrent as it is, that is what free speech is about,'” Maher said. “Anybody can defend the speech that we all like, but sometimes it changes, what people like, and you just don’t want to be limited that way. Now, if you are literally inciting violence or kiddie porn or something like that, yes, there are things — and they’re already illegal.”

Watch above via Club Random.