On 6 Jun 2006 at 15:38, Raphael Wegmann raphael@psi.co.at wrote:
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.
Fuck the UN.
(Is that hate speech?)
On 6 Jun 2006 at 15:38, Raphael Wegmann raphael@psi.co.at wrote:
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.
If we can't say "hate," how can we say "we fucking hate the UN"?
(My apologies to Mr. Carlin....)
sean@epoptic.com wrote:
On 6 Jun 2006 at 15:38, Raphael Wegmann raphael@psi.co.at wrote:
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.
If we can't say "hate," how can we say "we fucking hate the UN"?
Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
Fuck the UN.
(Is that hate speech?)
Maybe you should read the URL instead of cutting it out:
http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/ccpr.htm#art20
On 6 Jun 2006 at 15:38, Raphael Wegmann raphael@psi.co.at wrote:
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.
Free speech used to be a human right. Whatever happened to it?
G'day Dan,
On 6 Jun 2006 at 15:38, Raphael Wegmann raphael@psi.co.at wrote:
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.
Fuck the UN.
(Is that hate speech?)
Not in the Land of the Brave, it isn't.
Can we kinda get back on-topic here, because I can just *see* an avalanche of Americans posting all sorts of stuff we all already know Americans think, and a couple of other posters (Raphael leading the charge, undoubtedly) coming back with poorly-considered retorts, and it all just leading to an attempt to recapture USENET's heyday. No, thanks.
On 6/7/06, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
[...] and it all just leading to an attempt to recapture USENET's heyday.
We had a heyday?
On 07/06/06, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/7/06, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
[...] and it all just leading to an attempt to recapture USENET's heyday.
We had a heyday?
August.
On 6/7/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 07/06/06, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/7/06, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
[...] and it all just leading to an attempt to recapture USENET's
heyday.
We had a heyday?
August.
Which August? The one before The September That Never Ended?
I was there, and a lot of people are falsely nostalgic about The Old Days.
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 15:42:46 -0700, you wrote:
I was there, and a lot of people are falsely nostalgic about The Old Days.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be...
Guy (JzG)