"compensation" ???
I wonder how they arrived at this number.
Maybe there were 8,000 offended visitors to this site during a given period.
That's a dollar a pop.
So, can somebody call up and order ten bucks worth of hate?
Another nail in the coffin of "free speech" from Canada.
How many anti-Christian "hate speech" web-sites have they shut down? 0? Oh, I see, to hate "Christians" is O.K., that's free speech.
Nothing like blocking free speech, kind of reminds me of communism.
Don't know how this could hold up. The web is world wide and what's tolerated in one corner may or may not be taboo in another. Then there's supposedly freedom of speech in America.
"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 Ottawa lawyer Richard Warman, who filed the complaint in February 2002."
and just who defines what "hate" content is? if I buy product A, and buy it from store B, and I have a problem with it, store B won't fix it and treats me rudely and I complaint about it online..could the gov't then classify that as "hate" speech at the behest of store B??
It's a very slippery slope when gov't says "I don't know how to define hate speech, but I know it when I see it"...
Last time I checked you had to dial up an url to get to website. Simply don't visit the site if you don't agree with the views.
Sheesh I guess we could get DU shutdown and fined...(/sarcasm).
We're watching the death of FOS.
These guys are Nazi types but these charge are bllsht to me. When will a Muslim hate site hosted in Canada be gone after? One with postings in Arabic? I'm so glad I don't live in Canada. Britain can be even more loony left--->>>
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-2081330,00.html
Bin the rubbish bag police
Rod Liddle
Andrew Tierney of Hinckley, Leicestershire, has been fined £50 by his local council for having deposited two bits of junk mail in a litter bin. Hinckley and Bosworth borough council says litter bins aren’t for domestic stuff like letters, they’re for rubbish you find or generate in the street.
You may have read this story in one of your papers and sighed a little and perhaps wished ill-fortune on the petty, mean-minded, self-important bureaucrats who run our local councils, and particularly Hinckley and Bosworth borough council. Or you might have thought the story so absurd that the journalist made
Today I can reveal the other side to the story, the council’s side. And the great thing is that it makes the council look even more fatuous than it did last Thursday when Tierney contacted his local newspaper to complain about the fine.
The council now alleges that Tierney did not deposit just two letters in the litter bin, but a whole sack of “domestic rubbish”. Tierney denies the imputation: “They’re just trying to save face. They’ve been made to look stupid, so they come up with this. Why didn’t they say that on Thursday?”
Quite; but more to the point, how did they know that this black bag full of “domestic rubbish” had been deposited by Tierney — unless, that is, they pay someone to rifle through the garbage with the sole purpose of persecuting rubbish-placement transgressors? Well, of course, on cross-examination it transpires that this is exactly what they spend your council tax on. Rubbish placement transgressor inspectors.
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IMO the Liberals and NDPers who refuse not only to take up the tough fight for FOS, but then also work for the expansion of these so called "rights" commissions are paranoid, deluded and grandious.
The lefties just never get it until the commissars come for them.