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EU Anti-Hate Laws On The Web

Posted by timothy on from the they-must-hate-speech dept.

coupco writes "The European Union's Council of Europe passes a measure that would make hate speech on the web illegal, and subject to banning and filtering. A story on Wired News explains the How and Why."

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  1. CoE != EU by jas79 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The article talks about the council of europe and not about the european union. They aren't the same.
    The EU has less members than the Council of Europe and got more policitcal influence.

  2. legislation exists to subvert this... by joebeone · · Score: 5, Informative

    With the newly proposed Office of Global Internet Freedom, we may actually end up spending taxpayer dollars to subvert any kind of filtering that the EU enacts on US hate sites (which are roughly 63% of all hate sites on the Internet according to the EU).