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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."
I have never been able to understand why Americans feel that they can use racial slurs and hate speech freely. What purpose does it serve ? All civilised countries have laws about what can and cannot be said, to protect the minorities, and ensure stability.
Anyway, I hope Slashdot gets a censorship policy up and running soon, since all the racist crap that I have to put up with when I read at -1 will surely contravene this law...
Obviously the Council of Europe hates racists and are being given a public platform for their hateful beliefs! The N.Y. Times should be forced to remove this hate speech from their web site!
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But I wouldn't expect anything less from the inferior life forms passing for human that Europe spawned. Man are those people stupid. And they smell awful. Don't they believe in baths?
This is a little off topic from the original article, but anyway... Maybe the US should just withdraw from the UN. After WWI, there was a league of nations. however, all of the other nations didn't seem to realize that the US was the most powerful nation. Thay all wanted to do things their own way. Therefore, we withdrew from the League of Nations and it fell apart. After that, the UN formed, it was much better than the league of nations, and we had more of a say in it. Once again though, the UN doesn't seem to realize that we, the US, is the sole reason that there even is a UN. If we withdrew from it, it would probably fall apart and something even better would form.
We probably shouldn't withdraw now (especially so close after sept. 11) but if they UN keeps treating us like we are not even a world power (I'm talking a few years down the line) then maybe we should just drop out of the UN. Who need 'em any way?
You may be right. I do know that we got kicked off the human rights commission. I also know that China raised some kind of half-witted argument to the U.N. that we may be violating human rights in the U.S. since we are one of the few nations that recognizes gun ownership as a right. How ridiculous, especially considering where it's coming from. Yes, China, defender of individual liberty. I seem to remember something called Tieneman Square. Anyway, guns are the very reason that we can be guaranteed any future liberty. Free speech is great, but it means nothing if some entity wants to take all your rights (or life) away.
Anyway, us getting kicked off the commission drove home to a lot of folks that were paying attention that the UN is irrelevant. The aftermath of 9-11 then drove home to the average schmoe that the U.N. is way too often a podium for every tea-pot dictator with an axe to grind with the U.S. It also demonstrated that the U.N. is next to useless as far as anything that might be important besides bashing the U.S. The fact that Bush had to plead his case to them says a lot. I say we pull out of the U.N. now. There is no value-add for us.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Isn't "shall make no law
To quote Aristotle, "The habit of changing the laws lightly is an evil." I think it's good that no one's willing to modify the Bill of Rights. Let them retain a little bit of their sanctity, rather than be whittled away with each new fad.
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