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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. Re:This is not right by __past__ · · Score: 2, Troll

    Personally, I don't think someone should be allowed to share his opinion when this opinion is that killing people because of some arbitrary criteria is the way to go. Especially scince they tend to act after their opinion.

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  2. Re:This is not right by Commienst · · Score: 0, Troll

    I thought his stupid anecodatal evidence sucked as well. Too bad I do not have the points to mod him down. Most of the people posting racist shit on the slashdot and usenet are trolls. That guy must be dense. I unleashed countless racist trolls on usenet and slashdot.

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  3. Re:Europhiles, take a look at this.... by FirstOne · · Score: 0, Troll
    "I am a citizen of the United States, so perhaps this post is a manifestation of a major difference between the European point-of-view/thought process and the American, but I cannot see how this is can posibly be a good thing."

    "1. The language is going to be broad. Face it. Jus about anything will qualify because as soon as the precedent is set, everybody will be clamoring to have their pet peeve branded as hate speech. Someone makes a joke like: "How do you make a dog go meow? You run it quickly over a circular saw," and it will be branded as hateful to animals and animal lovers.
    2. As a direct consequence, since everyone is guilty of this in one way or another, the law will only be selectively applied. It will only be used against minority viewpoints. Anti-globalization protesters (which I am not a part of and to some extent find some disquieting parallels with Naziis m in their beliefs) will be branded hatemongers and barred from internet use. These laws will turn into icing on the cake and cheap means to punish people when nothing else can be pinned on them. "

    I wouldn't label citizens trying to protect society from repeating history, as "Naziis"!

    Fifty centuries of recorded history have taught us that, "Societies which failed to conserve resources for it citizens" are only remembered in the history books !

    The globalists have an agenda. Use the world's weakest societies
    too roll back the acheivements of the strongest societies.

    http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20020214-31481 960.htm
    http://www.epinet.org/webfeatures/viewpoints/globa l_strat_labor.html

    Now decide which of societies protections, you would like to live without?.

    Maybe the Environmental laws, or Minimum wage, or the Eight (8) Work day, or the 40 hour work week, an impartial Court system, or Workmans compensation, or even Social security/medicare?

    Hell, why not repeal the 13th amendment, and bring back slavery?

    There is a lot to loose by letting the globalists/(IVPP), run things !