IP: Estonian socialists want U.S. to outlaw "online hate speech"

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

I hate to say I told you so, but in my talks I warned it would come to this 
and it will unless those who value the first amendment (US) speak 
up.   [The presentation is at the website:
www.ul.cs.cmu.edu which is the Universal Library. Click on Lectures Click 
on Distinguished Lectures Click on 2001] Dave


> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 23:38:24 -0400
> To: politech () politechbot com
> From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
>
> An Estonian socialist, apparently speaking for much of Europe, wants the 
> U.S. to ban websites, mailing lists, and Usenet newsgroups that someone, 
> somewhere in the world, finds offensive or hateful? This isn't absurd; 
> it's simply surreal. It's interesting to speculate about the shape of the 
> final treaty language: Could it be used to shut down "hateful" 
> anti-capitalist sites? "Hateful" anti-communist, anti-black, anti-white 
> flamewars? Censor the David Horowitz ad? 
> (http://www.politechbot.com/p-01929.html)
>
> Background:
> http://www.politechbot.com/p-01496.html
> http://www.politechbot.com/p-01533.html
> http://www.politechbot.com/p-01141.html
> http://stars.coe.fr/WebDev/ASP/APList/APListFiche.asp?MPID=2404&Language=E
>
> -Declan
>
> ********
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/04/25/cybercrime.treaty/index.html
>
> STRASBOURG, France -- Supporters of a proposed cyber crime treaty are 
> pressing for it to include passages making it illegal to spread racist 
> propaganda and hate messages over the Internet.
> ...
> Deputies debating the treaty on Wednesday spoke of their "disappointment 
> that the draft convention contains no specific provision for combating the 
> dissemination of racist and xenophobic propaganda via the Internet."
> Speaking for the Parliamentary Assembly deputies, Socialist Ivar Tallo 
> from Estonia urged the council to add a protocol that would outlaw "racist 
> propaganda, abusive storage of hateful messages and use of the Internet 
> for trafficking in human beings."
> ...
>
>
> http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/04/26/Consumers/Internettreaty_jc_010426
>
> STRASBOURG, FRANCE - The Council of Europe, a human rights watchdog, is 
> attempting to draft the world's first Internet crime treaty. The Council's 
> goal is to make it illegal to hack, defraud, launch computer viruses and 
> spread hate messages.
> ...
> The Council is getting support from the public to outlaw racist 
> propaganda, fired up by a recent French court decision. Last fall, a Paris 
> judge ordered Yahoo, based in the United States, to block the sale of Nazi 
> memorabilia from its auction pages.
> ...
>
>
>
>
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