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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. so what is hate/racist speech? by thogard · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    So if I tell someone that I think they should go to jail because they just forced Female Circumcision on their 12 yr old daughter, is that hate speech? The only groups I know of around here that do it are Muslims so is that racists?

  2. In case no one notices.... by Flavius+Stilicho · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    "The Justice Department fought hard to have the racist bits pulled from the cybercrime convention itself. I can't imagine they will let freedom of speech be curtailed via the backdoor in this way."

    I wonder how hard the DOJ fought against some of the other recent bills that have been passed that fly in the face of the Constitution.