Someone should devote a month to that movie!
I thought A Man For All Seasons was the movie of the month!
It's not!
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Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.Granted, there is some ambiguity here, but the Human Rights Commission has clarified that this right encompasses "even expression that may be regarded as deeply offensive" and lays out a very clear (and strict) standard for when the state can restrict speech.
"Actually in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights hate speech is condemned and not included in the freedom of speech, and the counties who sign it are obliged to consider it a crime."And, of course, I posted Article 19 earlier, which is explicitly about protecting speech. So, at minimum, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights does not simply condemn hate speech, but has two edicts in it that seem to at least nod at both sides of the debate. And even that's being too generous, because Article 19 is far, far less ambiguous than Article 7, and has even been formally clarified as not excluding things on the basis even/merely of being "deeply offensive."
"Actually in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights hate speech is condemned and not included in the freedom of speech, and the counties who sign it are obliged to consider it a crime."And, of course, I posted Article 19 earlier, which is explicitly about protecting speech. So, at minimum, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights does not simply condemn hate speech, but has two edicts in it that seem to at least nod at both sides of the debate. And even that's being too generous, because Article 19 is far, far less ambiguous than Article 7, and has even been formally clarified as not excluding things on the basis even/merely of being "deeply offensive."
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