<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Avri Doria <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avri@ella.com" target="_blank">avri@ella.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 31 May 2012, at 02:52, Roland Perry wrote:<br>
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> In message <<a href="mailto:105F1EC9-631C-49BC-9D01-4E1BAE0B26F4@acm.org">105F1EC9-631C-49BC-9D01-4E1BAE0B26F4@acm.org</a>>, at 21:35:40 on Wed, 30 May 2012, Avri Doria <<a href="mailto:avri@acm.org">avri@acm.org</a>> writes<br>
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>> not sure in what world nudity and hate speech fall under the same category.<br>
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> Not sure what you mean by "same category", but they are commonly both banned from certain types of communications media in various countries.<br>
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</div>That was my point. When we begin to accept that they are in the same category and that equating them is in any way reasonable, I think we make a big mistake.<br>
</blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">There was no mention of equating them. I simply pointed to the exceptions according to how Article 19 was crafted and the tests therein. Countries differ on their laws, and on what they perceive to be public morality.<br>
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Both of these reasons for restricting people's freedom are being grossly abused.</blockquote><div>Do you mean the abuse of the exceptions in Article 19 of the ICCPR?</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
To combine their abuse, and somehow indicate that this is a reasonable thing to do is a really bad idea in my view.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div>I am unsure of what you are referring too. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">
> I refer you to Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" although the jury is still out in the USA regarding the acceptability of the word "Nigger" (although I wouldn't use the word myself other than in a context such as this).<br>
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</div>according to the hate speech proponents, using any designation other than the n-word designation is hate speech. beware.<br>
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almost anything is hate speech this days. and if it isn't hate speech today, give it a chance, it will be hate speech tomorrow.<br>
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