(January 14, 2013 at 5:39 pm)TaraJo Wrote: I didn't even know it was based in France until now. Interesting.
As much as it can be easy to bad mouth 'Merica, one area where the United States is more progressive tan most other places is freedom of speech. In fact, I did a report on the subject a couple of years ago and found an interesting article where France and the US got into a bit of an argument over that. France doesn't allow sales of Nazi memorabilia, but the US does. The case I found, Yahoo was ordered to block French users from being able to access a site that was selling Nazi and other race-hate items. It makes me wonder, if this board got into one of our more contreversal discussions, what criteria would it take for the government to come in and do something about it?
Here's the story, in case anyone wants a little reading on it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/760782.stm
Well, it is one thing to sue an entity for incitement to violence. America has sued the KKK before But it is a another to ban things that in reality are bad things to forget.
I want that stuff floating around not as "you should do this" but "you should not do this".
Owning a copy of Mien Kompf doesn't make one a Nazi per say. Most people would read it to understand the mind of a madman.
It would be like banning the Holocaust museum because it depicts Nazis.
Sometimes I think Europe boomerangs too far.
To me that would be like banning South Park that makes fun of everyone, not out of hate, but to say "hey, if you cant laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at".
There is a danger long term for that PC attitude to become fascism itself. Censorship is a bad thing. I'd rather regulate stuff, not ban it.
