Monday, January 12, 2015

Freedom of Speech

Hypocritical governments, while claiming to protect free speech and decrying the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo as an attack on free speech, and using the attack as an excuse to censor the internet.
"In the wake of this week’s terrorist attacks in Paris, which began with the killing of 12 people at the offices of satirical publication Charlie Hebdo, the interior ministers of 12 EU countries have called for a limited increase in internet censorship.
The interior ministers of France, Germany, Latvia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and the U.K. said in a statement (PDF) that, while the internet must remain “in scrupulous observance of fundamental freedoms, a forum for free expression, in full respect of the law,” ISPs need to help “create the conditions of a swift reporting of material that aims to incite hatred and terror and the condition of its removing, where appropriate/possible.”"
You can't make this stuff up.

If terrorists had killed Donald Sterling for his statements, would liberals, or anybody, have declared him a martyr for free speech? No.

The government would not have allowed protests if the victims were right-wing.

Turk President blasts Netanyahu as a hypocrite and state sponsor of terror.

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