Recommended reading: Censorship as ‘Tolerance’

Censorship as ‘Tolerance’ by Jacob Mchangama

"The ubiquitous European hate-speech laws represent a clear and present danger to freedom of expression in the Western world. Not only do they interfere with the basic right of the individual to speak his or her mind even if it causes offense, they are inherently arbitrary and prone to abuse. The determination of which expressions are “hateful” or “derogatory” is highly subjective; the atheist and the fervent believer are unlikely to agree on where the limits of religious satire should be drawn. And in an era of identity politics, when people are encouraged to think of themselves primarily as members of racial, religious, or ethnic groups with special rights rather than as individual citizens with equal rights before the law, “racism” and “hatred” have become very broad concepts indeed.

Moreover, the question of which groups get hate-crime protections depends on political favor..."

H/T Jewhadi Fashionista

Van Grungy  – (12:06 PM)  

http://reason.tv/video/show/obscenity-vs-freedom-of-expres

This is a test of the emergency free speech system.

First they came for the Porn Producer, but my harddrive was already 'packed' so I didn't care...

Seriously though, one may hate what porn does for our culture, but free speech and 'free thought' are sacrosanct...

Long live South Park!

dizzy  – (12:40 PM)  

Interesting that this appears just below an item condemning "Identity politics".
I wonder how the money they collect will be handled --

// A crucial detail about Wilders’ party, the PVV, is that it only has two official members: himself, and the Friends of the PVV Foundation which he formed as a finance-gathering apparatus.
Dutch law states that every party with a membership of 100,000 or more can receive state subsidy. Wilders’ decision to keep his party in his own hands therefore also has severe financial consequences.
Someone else aside from the Dutch state has to provide the money. Much of it comes from the US, where Wilders travels regularly. According to the Volkskrant, in 2008 Wilders even changed the statutes of the Foundation to ensure that it could be used to accept donations for legal cases – the grounds of which remain unspecified in the document – that he might be faced with.
The Dutch press has tracked down several of the principal financial sources for the PVV in the US. //
http://www.dutchnews.nl/columns/2010/06/wilders_and_the_us_israel_lobb.php

Blazing Cat Fur  – (12:42 PM)  

Gee Dizzy I hope I get my cut. Go Geert!

Blazing Cat Fur  – (12:49 PM)  

Good link VanG I believe Eyecrazy posted on this.

Revnant Dream  – (10:23 PM)  

Its not Porn I worry about. Unless you guys live in caves. Its getting harder by the day to access the American Web. They started on movies & such but now its even in talk areas.
Its like America is sealing itself away from the World.

Blazing Cat Fur  – (6:23 AM)  

Well there is a large segment out there who think censoring others is their right. Thy possess a badly skewed perception of both rights and of their own worthiness to make such decisions.

Blazing Cat Fur  – (1:08 AM)  

Good link VanG I believe Eyecrazy posted on this.

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