RE: 17 y/o YouTuber faces years in jail for insulting Islam and Christianity
June 1, 2016 at 9:51 pm
(June 1, 2016 at 8:02 pm)dom.donald Wrote: Having looked into NZ's law, hate speech is: "threatening, abusive, or insulting...matter or words likely to excite hostility against or bring into contempt any group of persons...on the ground of the colour, race, or ethnic or national or ethnic origins of that group of persons". So being insulting, abusive or threatening isn't enough in itself to be illegal (in NZ). Which is a relief.
So the question would be whether some random unknown on YouTube is 'likely to excite hostility". I would suggest that this isn't the case here. Whereas if this woman had some social influence or position of authority, it may be illegal.
Each country's laws are different.
As I've repeatedly pointed out, Google has a specific policy. It's stricter than most laws in first-world countries. If they enforced their policy equally as it applies to ethnicity OR religion then the kid (AmosYee) would not be facing any charges because his content would have been deleted and his channel banned just like Evalion.
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The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
