EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content

Post by zimpenfish » Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 9:50 AM UTC

anon1385 wrote: post #169

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #162

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Wait, am I being unclear or are the downvotes from anti-vaxxers? The anti-vaxxers send death threats to people who correct their erroneous claims. That's how you shut down reasoned discourse -- by having fervent zealots attack anyone who contradicts them. Obviously attacking people who disagree with you is the opposite of them having free speech. It suppresses the speech of anyone not willing to be subject to the thr…

You're getting downvoted because you're dangerously wrong. Yes some anti-vaxers send threats, but the idea that they have managed to silence the mainstream scientific opinion on vaccines is ludicrous. That information is widely available to everybody. I bet you can't find a single anti-vaxer who isn't aware of what the mainstream position on vaccine safety is. Being opposed to the orthodox position is a big part of t…

Post by raxxorrax » Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 10:06 AM UTC

jdietrich wrote: post #14

tick_tock_tick wrote: post #2

It's very sad to see the path the EU has chosen to follow in regards to speech and the free flow of ideas.

It's a path that pre-dates the EU. We're a crowded continent with a huge amount of diversity and a long and bitter history of war. We have learned through bitter experience that, while free speech is a precious right, it is also an extremely dangerous one in the wrong circumstances. Germans in particular are acutely aware of the disastrous consequences of allowing incitement to go unchallenged. Free speech is not unc…

Post by oarsinsync » Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 10:11 AM UTC

narag wrote: post #180

oska wrote: post #164

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Spain has passed a law banning the “glorification of terrorism” or “humiliating victims of terrorism”. While this is not 'speech critical of the government' the law is vaguely worded and has been broadly interpreted. More detail in this report from Amnesty International: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/Spain-Counter...

I don't know why you're being downvoted. While the GP comment is total BS, what you wrote is simply the facts. There's nobody in jail for writing anything. The report is based on facts, but it goes overboard with the conclusions. Edit: the BS comment is by oarsinsync, so it should be GGP, sorry if that led to confusionl.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 10:45 AM UTC

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #163

ascendantlogic wrote: post #13

Politicians do not care about the ramifications of this. They only care about granting themselves power over who sees what when through the guise of combating hate speech, terrorism, child porn, etc. Posting a blog about this will change nothing.

So do you think none of those people actually care about combating hate speech, terrorism, child porn, etc? Or do you think they just see these things as usual tools to get power - and to what end exactly?

Post by xorand » Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 11:45 AM UTC