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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. Perhaps by fluxrad · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Perhaps this whole argument is best summed up by one of my favorite quotes (from none other than George Orwell):

    "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

    --
    "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
  2. An appropriate Karl Marx quote... by SEE · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy,
    the second time as farce."

    Or, the first time as the Soviet Union, the second time as the European Union.