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ISP Fined $5000 For Hate Content
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."
Right to safety? That's a new one on me. It's like saying you have a "right" to a nice car. Saying it doesn't make it so. In reality, you get a degree of safety in proportion to your good fortune and your wit in applying the effort of will to securing your safety, but it's playing with marginal factors and the results are not much: You still die.
Right to safety, huh? I get a good chuckle out of that one.
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