20 April 2007

A well intended very bad idea

The European Union has taken steps to make incitement to "racial hatred" as well as justification or gross trivialisation of genocide crimes punishable by imprisonment.

I have no problem with making speech that incites violence; irrespective of whether it has a racial, religious or ethnic dimension; a criminal act but how does one define "hatred"? Where does one draw the line? Will one still be able to incite "deep dislike" or "general distaste"?

It is a bad, bad, bad idea but no there' will be no stopping it I imagine.

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