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Euro thought police criminalize impure speech on line

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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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