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To: Dallas59
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?
13 posted on 11/10/2003 8:17:14 AM PST by Sunshine Sister
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To: Sunshine Sister
I have no doubt. There is a thing called the "Rule of Unintended Consequences". So, given a loose interpretation of the law, European judges may rule sites defending the US nuclear bombing of Japan as a hate site (note especially the WWII reference), anything dealing with the American Revolution as a hate group, the War Against Terrorism, etc, etc. When we FReepers berate the French for their perfidy, watch that also be banned.

The very act of banning this kind of speech will also serve to promote it for those wanting to be anti-establishment. Better to let the kooks appear unabated for all to see. That would go farther than trying to decide what is and isn't hate by some bureaucrats. But those wacky Europeans have always known better than the upstart, primitive Americans and their ideas of freedom.

17 posted on 11/10/2003 8:28:10 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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