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ISP Fined $5000 For Hate Content

Posted by Zonk on from the slippery-slope dept.

eRondeau writes "In a precedent-setting ruling, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has fined a hosting company for carrying 'objectionable content'. The material in question was White Supremacist postings. From the article: 'The ruling sends a very strong message that Internet servers, if they are aware there is hate content and don't take timely action to remove it, can be held liable,' said the Ottawa lawyer who filed the complaint in February 2002. The individual posters were fined thousands as well."

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  1. Re:Wait a sec... by Deadguy2322 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Frighteningly enough, no. The previous government was even looking for ways to punish churches that refused to perform gay weddings. Welcome to Canada, where there's no discrimintation, aside from govermentally-approved oppression.

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  2. Re:No, you wait a sec... by aminorex · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I object. Killing GWB would not be effective. Now taking out Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Wolfowitz, Perle, Zakheim, Feith, Pipes, Kristol, Rove, Clinton, Feinstein, Specter, Coleman, and a few of the Joint Chiefs might be an improvement, but dear PoTUS just ain't got the horsepower to operate a good fascist empire, so you can't make a case for his removal: He's irrelevant.

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  3. Re:Rights... by dfjghsk · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    great.. so everyday that woman gets to be reminded some sick SOB raped her and that the sacrifices she has to make on a daily basis are for a child she didn't want...

    but at least she gets a few dollars in child support from the man she doesn't want anything to do with.

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