[Dallas59]

Hate on the Net?.......No way.

[xrp]

Oh boy...here comes the Euro Thought Police.

[Alouette]

Euronuts will use this law to shut down pro-Israel and pro-USA sites.

[Snowy]

Does this mean no one can get to DU from the UK?

[trebb]

Yesy, and Algore says that the Prez is just using Iraq as smoke and mirrors to facillitate the removal of our rights and freedoms. You want to really address the issue, you have to look at those that will limit freedom of speech (hate or not) and decide that history needs to be rewritten to not offend anyone, and kids' books can't show ice cream or girls being maids, etc. That's where the real deteriation of our freedoms is coming from and people want to gripe about "Jackbooted thugs" and such while ignoring the insidious creep...

[Puppage]

Europeans Outlaw Net Hate Speech

And, just WHO defines "hate speech"?

THIS is what the 2nd amendment is ALL about.

[thinktwice]

Picture a proverbial camel ... sticking its nose under a Bedouin tent flap.

Maintaining the Freedom of Speech is far more important than criminalizing offensive websites.

[Mike Darancette]

Specifically, the amendment bans "any written material, any image or any other representation of ideas or theories, which advocates, promotes or incites hatred, discrimination or violence, against any individual or group of individuals, based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin, as well as religion if used as pretext for any of these factors."

Watch FR be banned from the EU while DU is applauded.

[cwb]

It's interesting to see how the Euro's bend backwards to shed their anti-Semetic side by banning "Holocaust" deniers on the internet. Yet, at the same time, they still practice anti-Semitism in the streets, spoken by some of their own leaders. Image is everything.

[Qwinn]

"It also obliquely refers to the Holocaust, outlawing sites that deny, minimize, approve or justify crimes against humanity, particularly those that occurred during World War II."

How many people want to bet that this will include silencing any facts that demonstrate that Pope Pius XII was not even remotely "silent" about the Holocaust? (raises hand)

Qwinn

[Sunshine Sister]

I wonder if the folks in Europe have ever been here? There has been some major league disagreein' goin' on here. I wonder if they think that is hate speech?

[Republic If You Can Keep It]

against any individual or group of individuals

I wonder if parts of the Bible are now banned.

???

[The Scorpion King]

I'd like to see 'em enforce that one. Those sites will move to one of the island nations that don't care, and thumb their noses at the Euro Thought Police.

[mhking]

Council of Europe has adopted a measure that would criminalize Internet hate speech, including hyperlinks to pages that contain offensive content.

How long before they come after FR?

Just damn.

If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[Gritty]

I wonder if these prohibitions will extend to desperate Europeans trying to "out" Islam and reverse their oncoming calamity?

[Gabz]

Council of Europe has adopted a measure that would criminalize Internet hate speech, including hyperlinks to pages that contain offensive content.

The antis claim sites like FORCES, etc contain offensive material because FORCES pinpoints the offensive content of the antis sites.

It also obliquely refers to the Holocaust, outlawing sites that deny, minimize, approve or justify crimes against humanity, particularly those that occurred during World War II.

Wonderful, so now we are guilty of hate speech when we try to remind people that Hitler was very anti-smoker and anti-smoking and used that to discriminate against people based upon sex and ethnic origin. Or will the antis be guilty of the hate speech when they refer to us as being as bad as the nazis because SHS kills so many...........?

[RippleFire]

bump

[longtermmemmory]

How long before they declare the FR a hate site?

Will OConnor give deference to the EU law over the US Consititution. The notion that is said she would consider it is offensive. Occonnor and Ginsberg have similar concepts on this issue.

They can't win in the market place of ideas, so they now close the market.

[Bikers4Bush]

When will the Euro tools realize that you can't regulate thought by regulating speech?

[Skooz]

Excellent! Now, if they can pass a law against "bad vibes" and being annoyed, my day would go much better.

Oh, and pass a law against traffic jams, too. And babies crying. And puppies needing to be house broken.

My daughter is sick today. They need to outlaw the flu, as well.

[Prodigal Son]

Hmmm. So if you called for a boycott against the French for example, this would be illegal. If you had a website that linked to FR this would be illegal. If you published a blog that said "The Israelis should crack down on the Palestinians" this would be illegal. If you had a website that supported your country going to war against another country...