(May 5, 2019 at 2:03 am)Huggy Bear Wrote: How is Farrakhan dangerous?
He is known of making antisemitic videos on FB.
(May 4, 2019 at 3:58 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Although I am against censorship mainly, the lack of any oversight on the interwebz has caused untold damage by putting people in bubbles of lies. Its how we've got Trump and Brexit and many other bad things.
So I'm conflicted.
If it gives you any comfort most countries in the world have anti-hate laws. In Canada there are "anti-hate" statutes and laws against spreading "false news" that have been applied to stuff like Holocaust deniers. In Austria it is a crime if a person "denies, grossly trivializes, approves or seeks to justify the national socialist genocide or other national socialist crimes against humanity." In France it is illegal to challenge the existence of "crimes against humanity," as defined by the military tribunal at Nuremberg:
Quote:crimes against humanity: namely murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war, or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated.
And it was used in one famous case like when the French Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson was found guilty in a Paris court of defamation and incitement to racial hatred and violence back in 1981.
Germany has the "Auschwitz-Lie" Law, which makes it a crime to "defame the memory of the dead."
Switzerland, Belgium, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Sweden, and Australia have similar laws on the books.
While in US it is left to corporations to deal with these sort of things
