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Council of Europe Pushes Net Hate-Speech Ban

Posted by timothy on from the thoughtcrime-hatespeech dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Haven't we learned anything? by mpe · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    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.