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Thread #113080 Message #2400201
Posted By: Riginslinger
29-Jul-08 - 08:13 AM
Thread Name: BS: responding to 'hate speech'
Subject: RE: BS: responding to 'hate speech'
"Canada, England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa, Australia and India all have laws or have signed international conventions banning hate speech.'"
I think people need to be very careful with this. Remember that guy--can't remember his name--who they threw in jail in Austria for denying the Holocaust? It seems very unwise to me for government to be punishing somebody for what they think, or even what they say they think. It's a case of one side becoming as repugnant as the other.