IP: Estonian socialists want U.S. to outlaw "online hate speech"

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

I hate to say I told you so, but in my talks I warned it would come to this 
and it will unless those who value the first amendment (US) speak 
up.   [The presentation is at the website:
www.ul.cs.cmu.edu which is the Universal Library. Click on Lectures Click 
on Distinguished Lectures Click on 2001] Dave


>Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 23:38:24 -0400
>To: politech@politechbot.com
>From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
>
>An Estonian socialist, apparently speaking for much of Europe, wants the 
>U.S. to ban websites, mailing lists, and Usenet newsgroups that someone, 
>somewhere in the world, finds offensive or hateful? This isn't absurd; 
>it's simply surreal. It's interesting to speculate about the shape of the 
>final treaty language: Could it be used to shut down "hateful" 
>anti-capitalist sites? "Hateful" anti-communist, anti-black, anti-white 
>flamewars? Censor the David Horowitz ad? 
>(http://www.politechbot.com/p-01929.html)
>
>Background:
>http://www.politechbot.com/p-01496.html
>http://www.politechbot.com/p-01533.html
>http://www.politechbot.com/p-01141.html
>http://stars.coe.fr/WebDev/ASP/APList/APListFiche.asp?MPID=2404&Language=E
>
>-Declan
>
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>http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/04/25/cybercrime.treaty/index.html
>
>STRASBOURG, France -- Supporters of a proposed cyber crime treaty are 
>pressing for it to include passages making it illegal to spread racist 
>propaganda and hate messages over the Internet.
>...
>Deputies debating the treaty on Wednesday spoke of their "disappointment 
>that the draft convention contains no specific provision for combating the 
>dissemination of racist and xenophobic propaganda via the Internet."
>Speaking for the Parliamentary Assembly deputies, Socialist Ivar Tallo 
>from Estonia urged the council to add a protocol that would outlaw "racist 
>propaganda, abusive storage of hateful messages and use of the Internet 
>for trafficking in human beings."
>...
>
>
>http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/04/26/Consumers/Internettreaty_jc_010426
>
>STRASBOURG, FRANCE - The Council of Europe, a human rights watchdog, is 
>attempting to draft the world's first Internet crime treaty. The Council's 
>goal is to make it illegal to hack, defraud, launch computer viruses and 
>spread hate messages.
>...
>The Council is getting support from the public to outlaw racist 
>propaganda, fired up by a recent French court decision. Last fall, a Paris 
>judge ordered Yahoo, based in the United States, to block the sale of Nazi 
>memorabilia from its auction pages.
>...
>
>
>
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