Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-28 Thread Tyler Durden
As long as truth is no defense against hate speech, and hate speech includes things which clearly don't involve anyone hating anyone else, hate speech is simply a code phrase for suppressing free expression. At worst. At best it's going to boil down to some local enforcement shitheel taking it

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2003-12-28 Thread Tyler Durden
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Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-28 Thread Tim May
On Dec 27, 2003, at 10:40 AM, Michael Kalus wrote: That you have extremists who will use the past as the main argument for their reasoning can be clearly seen by your own views. There is no difference between people like you and jews (or any other extreme zealot) who tries to push his or her own

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-28 Thread Eric Cordian
Michael writes: Being from Germany I would like to detest that statement. The German law clearly defines what is hate speech. It is not an easy task as you can see in a six month trial. It is the outcome of the trial which condemns Germany. THe length of the trial is an unimportant data

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-28 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27-Dec-03, at 9:53 AM, Tyler Durden wrote: All symbols that are related to Nazism. One of the reasons (if not the reason) why they banned Wolfenstein 3D. Interesting. So even if the swatsika is protrayed as a bad thing (to the point of

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-28 Thread BillyGOTO
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 10:52:57AM -0500, Michael Kalus wrote: If it is a historical drama in which the Symbols appear this seems to be permissible as well. If you put one on your jacket though and walk around with it in the streets they can get you. I guess The Producers will never make it