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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. Its about time. by Anton+Anatopopov · · Score: 1, Troll
    Since the population of Europe at around 310 million is greater than that of the USA, its about time we got a more European feel to the Internet.

    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...

  2. Hate speech by thelenm · · Score: 2, Troll

    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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  3. What a stupid law.. by defile · · Score: 1, Troll

    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?

  4. Re:Going too far. by gilroy · · Score: 1, Troll
    Blockquoth the poster:

    to put free speech into the law proper


    I'm not sure what you mean by this. Isn't "shall make no law ... abridging freedom of speech" something in the law "proper"?



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