• Llewellyn@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Here in Russia we relatively recently had got a law for “protection of the rights of believers”. And boy, did it go wrong.

    • aurele@sh.itjust.works
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      How about we stop at obviously malicious attempts of incitement to intercultural hate and violence?

      Is such an incitement not an offense in Sweden already? I know it is in France for example.

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      1 year ago

      The book burning was not malicious. It was a test to see if the other party is malicious.

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      It’s kind of strange that some countries have laws and punishments dealing with libel, slander, and defamation of character (disrespect of individuals) but “malicious attempts of incitement to intercultural hate and violence” (well said) makes some people throw their hands up and say “welp what can you do, it’s freedom”. The “Where do we start and where do we stop?” camp doesn’t seem to have enough mental tarmac to even take off in search of a solution.

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        Because libel and slander are targeted at individuals. Groups and worldviews do not enjoy the same protections as individuals by most law systems. That’s mostly a good thing.

        I have no love for the right-wing nutjobs trying to incite intercultural violence but at the same time I don’t think what they’re doing can be made illegal in a liberal society.

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          That’s interesting, I didn’t know that. Sounds reasonable to me.

          The US first ammendment (“free speech”) protects citizens from reprecussions from the government if a citizen criticizes the government. That’s it. It doesn’t mean you can say whatever tf you want, as some people interpret it. In fact, in the US, some people who misinterperet the first ammendment will be summarily executed by someone who misunderstands the second ammendment!