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EU Pushes to Limit Internet Speech
minamar writes "CNN is reporting that at an international conference, the EU is urging the US and other nations to ban racist and 'hate' messages from the internet. The US seems to be resisting, but is this another step away from free speech and how could an international group possibly regulate message on the internet anyway?"
Apologies for the previous post without accurate user, instead as anonymous coward, this is not a cowardly comment. This issue brings up in the Americans those concerns and fervent defenses of individual "liberties" that are inapplicable with respect to the probable motivations for this effort. Rather than an attack on the certified right of supposed free speech (limited in each local division that was a state actually by varied and imprecise social considerations) the EU seeks for the welfare of its member nations. Nazi or misinterpreting person may disagree, in general though the rise of power of Nazi parties and the response to them by opponent caused immense destruction. Specific campaigns of one party or another, when found in history to have had destructive effect and are not dominant in the current power structures, the current power structures will destroy the detrimental to society party. This is the probable goal. Do not forget that not every person is fanatic individualist pseudo-libertarian and many recognize instead that the greatest lifetime benefit to individuals is a healthy and stable collective. EU is similar collective representing true states (nation states) in general agreement acting in this to seemingly both eliminate known destructive and destabilizing elements without majority support and further ensure collective security in social aspects (as yet, that is) for its per proxy granted citizens.
FUCK THE EU!!!
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