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Council of Europe Pushes Net Hate-Speech Ban
omnirealm writes: "The N.Y. Times is reporting that the 43-nation Council of Europe is trying to ban racist and hate speech from the Internet by adding a protocol, or side agreement, to its cybercrime convention, which was stamped for ratification on Thursday."
The point is...nobody is in the right position to decide what is harmfull and what is not. By making legislation that says (in a broader way) things like Nazi's cannot say what they want to do to jews etc. Then why would such legislation let me say that I hate Nazi's? Because I'm conforming more to the general opinion? I think it is wrong to censor anything at all. I also think letting Nazi's say what they want makes the rest of us more conscious of their existance and enables therefore it enables us to fucking do something about it!
0x or or snor perron?!
nothing is 100% certain. Are you really sure that prohibition has no effect?
The problem with prohibition is that it dosn't have the affect it's advocates trumpet. The results are highly contaminated drugs where the supply is controlled by gangsters. Which is generally a considerably worst problem than dealing with the effects of people abusing the same drugs of regulated purity sold by legitimate bussiness.
Now imagine if we hadn't supported Pinochet? South America would have fallen to the Soviets, a country who murdered ten times the amount the Nazis killed. Once the Soviets had overrun South America where would your precious rain forest be now? It wouldn't be in existance. It would've been torn down for nuclear missile siloes and death camps. Just remember that next time you support those idiots who protest using communist flags. And just because the DMCA passed in the US, I bet 96% of the population even knows what it is. It's all because of our Govertainment system. The media is in bed with the government.
In the UK if a policeman pulls me over I do not have to be carrying my driving license, or any other identification, I do not have to give my identity. Sure he can then take me into custody on suspicion... but it is not a crime to not say who you are. Do you have the same freedom ?
Oh wait, I can't be taken into custody on something as flimsy as suspicion just because I was pulled over.
In other countries people fight for freedom, the US clings to the 1st ammendment as if it solves the need to fight.
No, they roll-over really quickly and have the US save them. The story of the last 60 years. Where would you be if we hadn't been there to fight off the Nazis? Or the Soviets? You should be so lucky you can spout off such conformist rebel anti-US bigotry but you fail to think what would happen to you if you even uttered anything anti-Communist or Nazi if they had won?