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To: Restorer
Oh great, so hate speech is protected by the freedom of speech according to you? In Germany or in the U.S., and most probably in most other civilized countries, hate speech is not allowed. You must have a problem with that.

Croatia has only recently decided to join the rest of the civilized world by passing a law that will prohibit such "freedoms" of expression as hate speech and Nazi symbols.

No doubt, this will leave some people very disappointed.

51 posted on 11/30/2002 10:21:37 PM PST by kosta50
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To: kosta50
In Germany or in the U.S., and most probably in most other civilized countries, hate speech is not allowed. You must have a problem with that.

Uhh. Actually, hate speech is allowed in the US. (Outside of colleges, anyway.) See, there's this little thing called the 1st Amendment to the Constitution.

They're whittling away at it, and hate crime laws are used to punish any acts committed by people who use hate speech more severely than the same acts committed without the speech. But the 1st still stands.

Hooray!

56 posted on 12/01/2002 10:58:17 AM PST by Restorer
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