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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. Oh well, so much for Voltaire. by hearingaid · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I mean, c'mon. You'd think Europeans would learn after a few centuries or so that trying to make bad people shut up doesn't really work.

    No, I'm not an American.

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