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EU Moving to Ban Online Hate Speech

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the slippery-slopes dept.

WED Fan writes "Several members of the EU Parliament are moving to ban online hate speech. 'The draft of the declaration, which heise online has seen, calls on providers in somewhat vague language to make provisions against "hate pages" part of their standard terms and conditions.'"

2 of 452 comments (clear)

  1. Finally by zantolak · · Score: 5, Funny

    At last, freedom from speech!

  2. Re:Yeah, and... by harrkev · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...How long before the definition of "hate" is expanded to speech politicians don't like?
    The logical error in your statement is that you assume that there will be some period of time where this WON'T happen.
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    "-1 Troll" is the apparently the same as "-1 I disagree with you."