Since I'm blinded by your brilliance (at avoiding to present sources), please
help me find actual proof of what you're saying about that EU bill. Because I
still don't see a damn source.
Since you want to bring RMS in:
When people talk about punishing "hate speech", they advocate censorship of
opinions. Censorship is dangerous to society and democracy.
And I can't disagree with that, yet I'd tell him that unrestricted free
speech is just as dangerous to society and democracy.
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-mar-jun.html#3_June_2016_%28Censorship_in_the_UK%29
And here's a source about that EU thing you're talking about:
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/fundamental-rights/files/hate_speech_code_of_conduct_en.pdf
You remind me of that Demolition Man movie which is Manichean (and extreme)
as possible, in freedom and its opposite.
It's all about balance, it's not all or nothing. It's contextual, not the
same concept you apply "as is" any time, anywhere.
The IT Companies also share the European Commission
's
and EU Member States'
com
mitment to tackle illegal hate speech online. Illegal hate speech,
as defined by the
Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA of 28 November 2008 on combating
certain forms and
expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal
law and national laws
transpos
ing it, means all conduct publicly inciting to violence or hatred
directed against a
group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to race,
colour, religion,
descent or national or ethnic origin. The IT Companies and the
European Commis
sion also
stress the need to defend the right to freedom of expression, which, as the
European Court of
Human Rights has stated, “is applicable not only to "information"
or "ideas" that are
favourably received or regarded as inoffensive or as a matter of i
ndifference, but also to those
that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population”
.
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This sounds perfectly reasonable to me. What matters is HOW they intend to do
it.
That's the difference between theory (or good intentions) and practice.
