<story><title>Sheryl Sandberg Misled Congress About Facebook’s Conscience</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2018/09/05/facebook-senate-hearing-sheryl-sandberg/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JBReefer</author><text>England has hate speech laws that produce _ridiculous_ outcomes, like a guy getting fined because he made a dumb gif of his dog Sig Heiling.</text></item><item><author>vtail</author><text>Grandparent’s is a universal argument, that applies to other countries &amp;#x2F; situations as well. Russia, which is &lt;i&gt;technically&lt;/i&gt; not a monarchy, have the same problem with hate speech law.&lt;p&gt;For obvious reasons, it’s harder to give an example from a more liberal country, but his&amp;#x2F;her point still stands.</text></item><item><author>lumisota</author><text>UAE is an absolute monarchy; using this as an argument against hate speech legislation seems.. overreaching.</text></item><item><author>gnarbarian</author><text>&amp;gt;Facebook “restricted access to items in the UAE, all reported by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, a federal UAE government entity responsible for [information technology] sector in the UAE. The content was reported for hate speech and was attacking members of the royal family, which is against local laws.”&lt;p&gt;Great example of why things like hate speech legislation are a terrible idea. Although intended to provide additional protection for marginalized groups they are inevitably wielded by the people with legal or political power against the less politically connected and marginalized.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>odessacubbage</author><text>i mean when you think about it, isn&amp;#x27;t being unjustly punished for speech the most english value of all?</text></comment>
<story><title>Sheryl Sandberg Misled Congress About Facebook’s Conscience</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2018/09/05/facebook-senate-hearing-sheryl-sandberg/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JBReefer</author><text>England has hate speech laws that produce _ridiculous_ outcomes, like a guy getting fined because he made a dumb gif of his dog Sig Heiling.</text></item><item><author>vtail</author><text>Grandparent’s is a universal argument, that applies to other countries &amp;#x2F; situations as well. Russia, which is &lt;i&gt;technically&lt;/i&gt; not a monarchy, have the same problem with hate speech law.&lt;p&gt;For obvious reasons, it’s harder to give an example from a more liberal country, but his&amp;#x2F;her point still stands.</text></item><item><author>lumisota</author><text>UAE is an absolute monarchy; using this as an argument against hate speech legislation seems.. overreaching.</text></item><item><author>gnarbarian</author><text>&amp;gt;Facebook “restricted access to items in the UAE, all reported by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, a federal UAE government entity responsible for [information technology] sector in the UAE. The content was reported for hate speech and was attacking members of the royal family, which is against local laws.”&lt;p&gt;Great example of why things like hate speech legislation are a terrible idea. Although intended to provide additional protection for marginalized groups they are inevitably wielded by the people with legal or political power against the less politically connected and marginalized.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.scotland-judiciary.org.uk&amp;#x2F;8&amp;#x2F;1962&amp;#x2F;PF-v-Mark-Meechan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.scotland-judiciary.org.uk&amp;#x2F;8&amp;#x2F;1962&amp;#x2F;PF-v-Mark-Meecha...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 makes it an offence to use a public communications network to send certain types of messages including those that are grossly offensive or threatening. The prosecution argued that by posting your video entitled “M8 Yer dug’s a Naazi” on to the Internet, you committed that offence.&lt;p&gt;“The centrepiece of your video consists of you repeating the phrase “Gas the Jews” over and over again as a command to a dog which then reacts.  Sometimes the phrase is “You want to Gas the Jews”. You recite “Gas the Jews” in a variety of dramatic ways. “Gas the Jews” in one form or another is repeated by you 23 times within a few minutes.&lt;p&gt;“On the whole evidence, including your own, applying the law as made by Parliament and interpreted by the most senior courts in this land, I found it proved that the video you posted, using a public communications network, was grossly offensive and contained menacing, anti-Semitic and racist material.&lt;p&gt;“You deliberately chose the Holocaust as the theme of the video. You purposely used the command “Gas the Jews” as the centrepiece of what you called the entire joke, surrounding the “Gas the Jews” centrepiece with Nazi imagery and the Sieg Heil command so there could be no doubt what historical events you were referring to.&amp;quot;</text></comment>