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Europe Continues Work on Cybercrime Treaty

Posted by michael on from the one-treaty-to-bind-them-all dept.

Tosta Dojen writes: "I haven't seen this posted yet, but the Council of Europe is proposing a ban on Internet 'Hate Speech'. Fortunately it looks like some intelligent comments are already being made." This is a continuation of the Cybercrime treaty, which we've mentioned before. Wired had a story about this a few days ago.

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  1. This is not right by G-funk · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is not right at all. I know that (especially in America) people are afraid of being called a racist more than death itself, but that's beside the point. Every racist should be able to have his opinion, and he should be able to share it with his fellow racists.

    The world is headed down a scary path, and this is just one of the early steps...

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  2. Europe and (the absence of) free speech by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Banning hate speech from the internet won't be anything new. In many European countries (at the very least Sweden and Germany) hate speech is already forbidden in ordinary media.

    In Sweden people have been prosecuted for hosting nazi homepages so i guess this applies to the internet too in Swedish law.

    This, btw, has broad support among the people.

    The whole problem is that people are too pragmatic. They are prepared to throw the principles of democracy out the door to try to fix the neo-nazi problem.