"In a precedent-setting ruling, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has fined a hosting company for carrying 'objectionable content'. The material in question was White Supremacist postings. From the article: 'The ruling sends a very strong message that Internet servers, if they are aware there is hate content and don't take timely action to remove it, can be held liable,' said the Ottawa lawyer who filed the complaint in February 2002. The individual posters were fined thousands as well."
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03-12-2006 07:05
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Zuzu Fassbinder
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03-12-2006 07:13
Whoa, its the opposite of the South Park Movie.
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Reitsuki Kojima
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03-12-2006 07:18
Please, someone post about how enlightened Canada is compared to the US!
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Toni Bentham
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03-12-2006 07:47
From the Bill of Rights:
"Freedom of expression, as long as it's expression the majority of folks don't find offensive, or isn't reminiscent of a hateful period of history, and doesn't force us to examine issues in ourselves or others that we would rather not examine." Oh, wait, that's NOT right.....my bad..... |
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Reitsuki Kojima
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03-12-2006 07:57
From the Bill of Rights: "Freedom of expression, as long as it's expression the majority of folks don't find offensive, or isn't reminiscent of a hateful period of history, and doesn't force us to examine issues in ourselves or others that we would rather not examine." Oh, wait, that's NOT right.....my bad..... Well, the canadian Bill of Rights is worded a little different from the US equivilant document, but I.1.d still is pretty clear, yeah. Unfortunatly, 318 and 319 of their criminal code throw that out the window. _____________________
I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us.
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Weedy Herbst
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03-13-2006 00:45
Please, someone post about how enlightened Canada is compared to the US! Our constitution does not provide that we can run around with concealed weapons. _____________________
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Reitsuki Kojima
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03-13-2006 02:55
Our constitution does not provide that we can run around with concealed weapons. Yeah, my point exactly. If it did, you might not need the government to protect you from everything. I don't fear anyone giving me a drag-around with a pickup truck because they find out I'm gay. Why? Because I will make a 9mm hole in their empty skulls if they try. _____________________
I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us.
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Weedy Herbst
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03-13-2006 03:50
Why? Because I will make a 9mm hole in their empty skulls if they try. Likewise, we don't worry about trigger happy paranoidiacs making violent empty threats. _____________________
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Reitsuki Kojima
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03-13-2006 03:57
Likewise, we don't worry about trigger happy paranoidiacs making violent empty threats. I threatened no one, nor am I paranoid, because I know of no one who is planning to drag me behind a pickup truck, nor do I think anyone is going to try in the future. Were that to change, however, it would cease to be a threat of any sort, particularly an empty one, and I would be the better off for a resonable level of precaution. In any event, do you honestly consider saying "Trying to kill me might not be healthy for you" a threat? I'd be more concerned about the person trying to do the killing, myself... Besides, do you worry about 'empty threats' as a matter of course? No wonder the government has to protect you from having your feelings hurt.   _____________________
I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us.
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Weedy Herbst
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03-13-2006 04:12
Besides, do you worry about 'empty threats' as a matter of course? No wonder the government has to protect you from having your feelings hurt. What part of "we don't worry" did you not comprehend? _____________________
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Reitsuki Kojima
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03-13-2006 04:22
What part of "we don't worry" did you not comprehend? You seem to imply that you don't worry because it can't happen under your legal system. Not that you don't worry in general. If you don't worry in general, then I guess your legal system is wasting it's time and needlessly restricting the freedoms of your citizens. *shrug*. _____________________
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Weedy Herbst
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03-13-2006 04:31
You seem to imply that you don't worry because it can't happen under your legal system. Not that you don't worry in general. If you don't worry in general, then I guess your legal system is wasting it's time and needlessly restricting the freedoms of your citizens. *shrug*. It's the net result when you elect conservative governments. _____________________
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Hiro Pendragon
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03-13-2006 07:50
Can I ask how final is the "Canadian Human Rights Tribunal"'s say on the matter? I'm guessing this will be appealed to a Canadian appeals court or supreme court?
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Chance Abattoir
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03-13-2006 15:26
I feel stupid for reading this thread. I really should've read only the second post.
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03-13-2006 15:32
I feel stupid for reading this thread. I really should've read only the second post. I know what you mean I'm from the UK if anyone wants to bash our goverment _____________________
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