Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Censor Hate Speech?, Censor Sign Language? Ban News?

News today brings legislation proposals in European Union to ban "hate speech".Google, Facebook, Twitter and others would be compelled to shut down "hate sites".Ridding the world of hate has been tried before. Problem is one mans hate is another mans passionate lifes work of love of freedom.So lets takes this a bit further. Voila! No hate speech has been done.Right now its gone.But will there still be news coverage?So if we see in streaming real time news coverage people getting blown up by laser bombs from planes not readily visible. Or we see in real time a beheading or a suicide squad blowing up a building in Europe. Would those signs be in themselves be "hate signs" How to you ban sign language?Who will interpret whether the sign language is hateful?Would the ultimate censorship be no reporting of the news?Would that stop hate?I would suggest NO WAR WITHOUT A NATIONAL REFERENDUM as one way to stop the spread of hate.

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