[WikiEN-l] To: Jimmy Wales - Admin-driven death of Wikipedia

Tue Jun 6 13:42:58 UTC 2006

And the UN is going to enforce that on the US how, exactly?

On 6/6/06, Raphael Wegmann <raphael at psi.co.at> wrote:
> sean at epoptic.com wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 12:04:35PM +0100, Selina . wrote:
> >
> >> Maybe you don't have laws against it with your happy little "patriotic"
> >> organisations like the KKK, but in civilised countries like the UK and
> >> Germany (for just two examples) racism/hate speech is illegal. Get used it
> >> it, the US is simply backwards in most social issues compared to the rest of
> >> the world (another example could be the prudishly religious aspects that's
> >> not so far off from the Puritans)
> >>
> >
> > That some countries punish thoughtcrime is not surprising.  That some
> > people are proud of the fact that their countries don't pass laws
> > forbidding people to think particular thoughts is not surprising either.
> >
>
> The discussion is not about thoughtcrimes. It is about hate *speech*
> which is a different matter. The U.S. is actually violating an UN
> resoltion by not passing hate speech laws.
>
> See: http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/ccpr.htm#art20
>
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> Raphael Wegmann
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