RE: 17 y/o YouTuber faces years in jail for insulting Islam and Christianity
June 1, 2016 at 11:01 pm
(June 1, 2016 at 9:51 pm)Aractus Wrote:(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.
Yes, I agree with that. Although, given that it didn't enforce its own policy, which I guess it has a right to do, the girl carries the residual responsibility.
