[FYI] Euro thought police criminalize impure speech on line

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28033.html

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Euro thought police criminalize impure speech on line  

By Thomas C Greene in Washington  

Posted: 11/11/2002 at 09:41 GMT  

The Council of Europe has amended its cybercrime treaty to devise 
criminal penalties for those who dare to express unpopular ideas for 
public consumption with any manner of computer equipment. The measure 
specifically targets so-called 'racist and xenophobic material', and 
would apply to any controversial Web-site, or even a mean-spirited 
posting to a BBS or an e-mail newsletter.  

Rather than waste public revenues educating people and encouraging 
them to respect each other, the CoE has taken the cheap, small-town 
Protestant route of criminalizing the mere expression of disrespect. 
That is, Europe will make a crime of the symptom while placidly 
ignoring the disease.  

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